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Commands to Backup and Restore Data onto a New Database

Commands to Backup and Restore Data onto a New Database

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Command to backup:

mysqldump databaseName  backupFilename.sql

Where mysqldump?is the command, databaseName?is the name of the database and backupFilename?is the name of the file in which the data will be backed up.

In case you want to backup multiple databases, you can use the command:

mysqldump --databases databaseName1 databaseName2  backupFilename.sql

Command to restore:

mysql-prompt use databaseName  mysql-prompt source backupFilename.sql
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