how do I import a Jumpline mySQL backup?

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Joined: Aug 2001

Jumpline totally screwed up a whole slew of things when they changed servers...

I have a file called keithlubrant_com.sql which was I file I created through phpMyAdmin. It is the dump of the structure and data...

How can I go about importing that while I wait for Jumpline to get here act together? My db is not the most recent, but at least it is something...

Thanks,
Keith

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[url]www.keithlubrant.com[/url]

Peter J. Boettcher's picture

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I'm not sure how to restore the db through PHPAdmin, but through the shell the syntax is:

mysql database < backup-file.sql

For more info check out this link: http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqldump.html

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mairving's picture

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Make sure of a couple of things when you import the data.
One is to make sure that the < is going the right way.
If it is going > this way, it will take your empty database and overwrite it with nothing, so backup.sql will have no data at all.

Also you will probably need to do this at the command line:
/pathto/mysql DATABASE_NAME -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD < /pathto/backup.sql, specifying pathnames, etc.

Mark Irving
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