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Commands tagged mysqldump

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mysqldump -p MYDB > MYDB.sql
2012-10-30 02:35:34
User: henry
Tags: mysql mysqldump
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Backup a whole database to a file

A basic usage

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mysqldump -eBv `echo "show databases like 'MYSQL_PATTERN'"|mysql -N`> OUTPUTFILE
2012-02-28 03:28:43
User: DewiMorgan
Tags: mysqldump
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Back up only databases matching PATTERN

Sometimes, I just want to back up a single client's databases. Fortunately, all clients have a set prefix to their database names. This makes my life easy! I just use 'CLIENTNAME_%' as my MYSQL_PATTERN in this command, and my life is suddenly easy.

mysqldump params:

-e - (optional) use extended insert.

-B - what follows is a list of databases

-v - (optional) give verbose output

mysql params:

-N - don't write column names in output (prevents us trying to back up a database called "Database").

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mysqldump --opt --where="true LIMIT 5000" dbinproduzione > miodbditest.sql
2012-02-02 11:50:35
User: 0disse0
Tags: mysqldump
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How to extract 5000 records from each table in MySQL

How to extract data from one table:

mysqldump --opt --where="true LIMIT 5000" dbinproduzione tabella > miodbditest_tabella.sql

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mysqldump OLD_DB | cat <(echo "CREATE DATABASE NEW_DB; USE NEW_DB;") - | mysql
2011-05-16 20:42:01
User: michaelmior
Functions: cat echo
Tags: mysql bash mysqldump
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Create a backup copy of a MySQL database on the same host

This should probably only be used for testing in a dev environment as it's not terribly efficient, but if you're doing something that might trash a DB and you still want the old data available, this works like a charm.

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ssh username@remotehost 'mysqldump -u <dbusername> -p<dbpassword> <dbname> tbl_name_1 tbl_name_2 tbl_name_3 | gzip -c -' | gzip -dc - | mysql -u <localusername> -p<localdbpassword> <localdbname>
2011-03-11 14:57:04
User: putnamhill
Functions: gzip ssh
Tags: mysql ssh gzip mysqldump
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A command to copy mysql tables from a remote host to current host via ssh.

This version compresses the data for transport.

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ssh username@remotehost 'mysqldump -u <dbusername> -p<dbpassword> <dbname> tbl_name_1 tbl_name_2 tbl_name_3' | mysql -u <localusername> -p<localdbpassword> <localdbname> < /dev/stdin
2011-03-09 18:35:07
User: tur_ki_sh
Functions: ssh
Tags: mysql ssh mysqldump
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A command to copy mysql tables from a remote host to current host via ssh.

In the example above 3 tables are copied. You can change the number of tables. You should be able to come up with variants of the command by modifying the mysqldump part easily, to copy some part of remote mysql DB.

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tar xfzO <backup_name>.tar.gz | mysql -u root <database_name>
2011-02-10 22:18:42
User: alecnmk
Functions: tar
Tags: mysql pipe restore tar mysqldump tar.gz
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restore .tar.gz on the fly

`tar xfzO` extracts to STDOUT which got redirected directly to mysql. Really helpful, when your hard drive can't fit two copies of non-compressed database :)

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for I in $(mysql -e 'show databases' -u root --password=root -s --skip-column-names); do mysqldump -u root --password=root $I | gzip -c | ssh user@server.com "cat > /remote/$I.sql.gz"; done
2010-03-07 15:03:12
User: juliend2
Functions: gzip ssh
Tags: mysql ssh gzip mysqldump
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Backup all mysql databases to individual files on a remote server

It grabs all the database names granted for the $MYSQLUSER and gzip them to a remote host via SSH.

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mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD database | gzip > /path/to/db/files/db-backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.sql.gz ;find /path/to/db/files/* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
2009-10-28 19:49:39
User: nadavkav
Functions: gzip rm
Tags: mysql backup find gzip mysqldump
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backup local MySQL database into a folder and removes older then 5 days backups
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ssh user@host "mysqldump -h localhost -u mysqluser -pP@$$W3rD databasename | gzip -cf" | gunzip -c > database.sql
2009-10-05 00:57:51
User: daws
Functions: gunzip ssh
Tags: mysql mysqldump
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Get a MySQL DB dump from a remote machine

This command will dump a database on a remote stream to stdout, compress it, stream it to your local machine, decompress it and put it into a file called database.sql.You could even pipe it into mysql on your local machine to restore it immediately. I had to use this recently because the server I needed a backup from didn't have enough disk space.

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mysql -e 'show databases' | sed -n '2,$p' | xargs -I DB 'mysqldump DB > DB.sql'
2009-09-25 08:43:06
User: mislav
Functions: sed xargs
Tags: mysqldump
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Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files

No need to loop when we have `xargs`. The sed command filters out the first line of `show databases` output, which is always "Database".

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eval $(sed -n "s/^d[^D]*DB_\([NUPH]\)[ASO].*',[^']*'\([^']*\)'.*/_\1='\2'/p" wp-config.php) && mysqldump --opt --add-drop-table -u$_U -p$_P -h$_H $_N | gpg -er AskApache >`date +%m%d%y-%H%M.$_N.sqls`
2009-08-18 07:03:08
User: AskApache
Functions: eval gpg sed
Tags: bash GPG backup sed Encryption eval sql mysqldump wordpress
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Create Encrypted WordPress MySQL Backup without any DB details, just the wp-config.php

The coolest way I've found to backup a wordpress mysql database using encryption, and using local variables created directly from the wp-config.php file so that you don't have to type them- which would allow someone sniffing your terminal or viewing your shell history to see your info.

I use a variation of this for my servers that have hundreds of wordpress installs and databases by using a find command for the wp-config.php file and passing that through xargs to my function.

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