MySQL Backup and Recovery

This article provides a quick guide to performing backup and recovery of MySQL databases

Logical Backup (mysqldump)

Backup database

mysqldump -u root -p[root_password] [database_name] > dumpfilename.sql

Backup multiple databases

mysqldump -u root -ptmppassword --databases bugs sugarcrm > bugs_sugarcrm.sql

 

Restore a database


In this example, to restore the sugarcrm database, execute mysql with < as shown below. When you are restoring the dumpfilename.sql on a remote database, make sure to create the sugarcrm database before you can perform the restore

mysql -u root -ptmppassword mysql> create database sugarcrm; mysql -u root -ptmppassword sugarcrm < /tmp/sugarcrm.sql mysql -u root -p[root_password] [database_name] < dumpfilename.sql