I had a server die and had to move all my accounts over to my new server.

I put the old server drive in my new server as a slave drive and have moved all the old sites files over.

8 of the websites were MYSQL based sites and although I have access to the old mysql dbs Im unable to use mysqldump to export the dbs , it simply says database unknown. So i tried to copy the dbs directoly off /var/lib/mysql in the old h/d to the new /var/lib/mysql on the new drive and still no dice, although the new sites see the new dbs they cant seem to use the data.

Anything anyone can offer to make these work or how to really be able to export mysql dbs off a slave drive if mysqldump wont see them. I lost 40 hosting customers that I had for over 5 years, so anyone that can point this out will truly be savior! GOd bless.