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The quickest and easiest way to backup and
restore your database would be to use MySQLDump. If you've got shell or
telnet access to your server, you can backup MySQL data by issuing the
mysqldump command. The syntax for the command is as follows.
mysqldump -u [uname] -p [pass] [dbname]
> [backupfile.sql] [uname] - this is your database username [pass]- this
is the password for your database [dbname] - the name of your database [backupfile.sql]
- the filename for your database backup
To backup your database 'Customers'
with the username 'sadmin' and password 'pass21' to a file custback.sql,
you would issue the command
mysqldump -u sadmin -p pass21 Customers
> custback.sql
Issuing this command will backup the
database to custback.sql. This file can be copied to a safe location or
a backup media and stored. For more information on MySQLDump, you can
check out : http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysqldump.html
Restoring your MYSQL database
If you have to re-build your database
from scratch, you can easily restore the mysqldump file by issuing the
following command. This method will not work if the tables already exist
in your database.
mysql - u sadmin -p pass21 Customers <
custback.sql
If you need to restore existing
databases, you'll need to use MySQLImport. The syntax for mysqlimport is
mysqlimport [options] database
textfile1
To restore your previously created
custback.sql dump back to your Customers Database, you'd issue
mysqlimport -u sadmin -p pass21
Customers custback.sql
For more information on MySQLImport,
you can check out : http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysqlimport.html
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