in freebsd, during a ports update of my mysql server, it claims i need to backup my database or it will get deleted.. i cant have that so i got into thinking, wow i wish there was a nice script that ...

I have an OS-level (WinXP) backup of a MySQL 5.0's Data directory, but no SQL file backup. Is it possible to restore from a data directory instead of an SQL script? I can copy the database's data ...