Re: Restoring database from .IDB files

[Peter Brawley]

You have only file backups, not logical (ie dump) backups? Unfortunate. Restoration of Community server file copy backups is reliable if and only if the file copy backup has been taken with the database in a perfectly consistent, inactive, error-free state, and if the two versions and configurations are identical. See https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-backup-excerpt/8.0/en/backup-types.html for file copy restoration methods.