PCR's notepad » MySQL http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com The area in patheticcockroach.com where the EEG isn't isoelectric Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:13:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 MySQL maintenance – making and restoring backups http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/199/mysql-maintenance-making-and-restoring-backups/ http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/199/mysql-maintenance-making-and-restoring-backups/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 21:32:00 +0000 David Dernoncourt http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/?p=199 I use this to back up a MediaWiki and a phpBB database. This is just a generic way to back up and restore databases with MySQL. You may want to compress this too, but we’ll cover only the very basics here, eg just do a backup and restore it.

To make the backup:

mysqldump –user=[the user] –password=[the password] [database name] > [target path/target file.sql]

To restore the backup:

mysql –verbose –user=[the user] –password=[the password] [database name] < [backup path/backup file.sql]

NB: –verbose is optional and slower, but I like using it :D

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