Thread:Project:Support desk/old mysql database resulting in Cannot contact the database server/reply (7)

I mean that you somehow must get the server running again in order to get your data out of it. Since this does not work with the new version, I would try with the old.

You can use the tool mysqldump to create a database dump on the command line:

mysqldump db-name > dump.sql

This will save the DB with name "db-name" to the file "dump.sql". For more information on mysqldump see the MySQL manual on mysqldump!