FTPing or copying and pasting innodb tables from one filesystem to another isn't going to work. Try this to restore innodb tables:

[http://egil.biz/how-to-recover-mysql-data-from-innodb/][1]

Better yet, do nightly dumps of your magento database:

mysqldump -u david -h localhost -pmypassword mymagentodatabase > mymagentodatabase.sql | gzip mymagentodatabase.sql 

To restore, open up mysql on the command line:

use mymagentodatabase
source /home/david/mymagentodatabase.sql 

Restoring from the mysql command line is way faster than using a client like navicat or phpmyadmin.

In my work environment, I also have a clone of the production code base on my development machine, such as: http://dev.magentowebsite.com. When I have to, I restore the last dump to my local mysql, then go into core_config_data and change the secure and nonsecure urls to http://dev.magentowebsite.com. Then I have the live site on my local machine and can test things without breaking the live site.

The thing you want is to fix the corrupt data that is in your current installation. The reason that you are getting Foreign key constraint errors is because the referenced item isn't available. Let's give an example:

You have a product with ID 5. The product is saved in catalog_product_entity. Now you assign the product to a category, the information for that is saved in catalog_category_product. In that table there is a column product_id which has a foreign key to the catalog_product_entity table

So when a line is added to this table the product MUST exist in the catalog_product_entity table. The advantage is that you protect the database from corruption, is does give you some nasty errors now and then, but at least it wont break your database... in theory.

In your case the database was set up incorrectly, exported with the wrong permissions sometime in the past or something like that, causing the constraint to be probably absent in your case. This causes problems because now you have all sorts of useless rows which just sit there.

Old Advise

The errors you are now getting are probably on the old rows. What I suggest you do is download a database management program which allows you to continue importing when an error occurs ignore the error an continue.

I have not tested not tested this method my self in this specific case, so thorough checking of the imported data is required. If the site is broken after the import then there are probably missing tables in the old database. In that case disable the foreign key check as described in the other comments and run the repair tool you mentioned yourself earlier.

Ps. Since it is about your database and all your data, it may not be unwise to have a magento developer who knows Magento have a look.

New Advise

I'll advise against my own case of importing the data, just had a similar problem today, I ran the following query multiple times (20 times in my case), this removes duplicates from the eav tables and solves a few problems.

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_product_entity_datetime` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_product_entity_datetime` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_product_entity_decimal` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_product_entity_decimal` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_product_entity_int` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_product_entity_int` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_product_entity_text` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_product_entity_text` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_product_entity_varchar` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_product_entity_varchar` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_category_entity_datetime` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_category_entity_datetime` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_category_entity_decimal` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_category_entity_decimal` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_category_entity_int` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_category_entity_int` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_category_entity_text` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_category_entity_text` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.*
FROM  `catalog_category_entity_varchar` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `catalog_category_entity_varchar` AS `duplicated`
ON (`orig`.`entity_id`    = `duplicated`.`entity_id`
    AND `orig`.`store_id`     = `duplicated`.`store_id`
    AND `orig`.`attribute_id` = `duplicated`.`attribute_id`
    AND `orig`.`value_id`     > `duplicated`.`value_id`);

DELETE `duplicated`.* FROM `core_url_rewrite` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `core_url_rewrite` AS `duplicated` 
    ON (
         `orig`.`id_path` = `duplicated`.`id_path` 
         AND `orig`.`is_system` = `duplicated`.`is_system` 
         AND `orig`.`store_id` = `duplicated`.`store_id`
         AND `orig`.`url_rewrite_id` > `duplicated`.`url_rewrite_id`
   )


DELETE `duplicated`.* FROM `core_url_rewrite` AS `orig` 
INNER JOIN `core_url_rewrite` AS `duplicated` 
    ON (
         `orig`.`request_path` = `duplicated`.`request_path` 
         AND `orig`.`store_id` = `duplicated`.`store_id`
         AND `orig`.`url_rewrite_id` > `duplicated`.`url_rewrite_id`
   )