MySQL Backup and Restore Commands for Database Administration | Linux Today

MySQL Backup and Restore Commands for Database Administration

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Jun 11, 2019

This article shows you several practical examples on how to perform various backup operations of MySQL databases using mysqldump command and also we will see how to restore them with the help of mysql and mysqlimport command in Linux. mysqldump is a command-line client program, it is used to dump local or remote MySQL database or collection of databases for backup into a single flat file.

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