Importing / Loading a Mysql backup / database from a .sql file – In Shell

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:26:28 +0000

I was appalled when the first page of search results for this came up with instructions on how to do this for a Windows server. So I felt it my duty to add to the tutorials out there for people actually running a real web server (BSD/Linux/Etc)

Parse in the .sql file into an already existing DB

In shell simply issue the following command

$ mysql -u root -p db-name < backup-file.sql

To create a new DB and then import

Now create database called sales using SQL statement:

mysql> CREATE DATABASE myDB;
mysql> quit;

Now restore database, enter:
$ mysql -u root -p myDB < /path/to/your-DB-file.sql
Easy Peasy isn’t it?

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Importing / Loading a Mysql backup / database from a .sql file – In Shell