How to export / import MySQL database

Posted by Martin Perron on Jan 27, 2009 in HowTo - LinuxNo comments

For migrate a database or just backing up a database, here’s the howto:

Export:

mysqldump -u username -pThePassword –opt DatabaseName > /tmp/DatabaseName`date +%Y_%m_%d`.sql

Import:

mysql -p -h localhost DatabaseName < DatabaseName.sql

Voilà!

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