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Repair Mysql / MariaDB databases

It may happen that MySQL server has unusually high load. Or when checking the tables you get the message: “Mysql going away…” and the MySQL server suddenly restarts. This indicates that there are technical problems with the databases.

Please make sure that there is no hardware damage (memory, hard drives, motherboard defective).

1. journalctl | grep "marked as crashed and should be repaired" | tail
   Checks if there are defective databases.
2. mysqlcheck -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` --auto-repair --all-databases
   All tables will be repaired
3. service mysql stop

   myisamchk -s /var/lib/mysql/*/*.MYI  (Checks if there are MyISAM Errors)
   myisamchk -o /var/lib/mysql/*/*.MYI  (Repairs MyISAM with cache)
   myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/*/*.MYI  (Repairs MyISAM without cache)
   myisamchk -s /var/lib/mysql/*/*.MYI  (Control)

4. journalctl | grep "marked as crashed and should be repaired" | tail
   Should be empty now, if not, write down table names and then

5. cd /var/lib/mysql
   find . -name 'tablename*'

   (Then log into Plesk and open the corresponding table under Tools & Settings => Databases Server => select database number => search for database => open database as end customer and click on repair)

If the database server MariaDB or MySQL no longer starts at all and the InnoDB storage is defective (Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB), the following entry must be made in my.cnf:

[mysqld]
innodb_force_recovery = 2

The database server must then be restarted. If this does not work, increase the recovery mode from 2 to 3 and so on until the MariaDB/ MySQL database server is working again.

Done. Just check from time to time if everything is OK.