[Deploying Sakai] MySQL dump format for backing up

[Mike De Simone]

i usually just use mysqldump to produce 1 big file.  but if you have these
tab-delimited files, it seems like a small bash script could do what you
need:

something like this should work (assuming database is 'dbname', adjust as
necessary):

for i in `ls *sql`; do
   mysqlimport dbname $i
done

reference:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/reloading-delimited-text-dumps.html

Thanks,

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Mike DeSimone
Lead Systems Engineer
*r**Smart* | 602-490-0473


On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 16:16, Colin Tatham <colin.tatham at unimelb.edu.au>wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just wondering whether anyone has any experience or opinions on this.
> mysqldump has an option which produces separate files for the database
> structure (in SQL files) and content (in tab-delimited plain text files):
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump-delimited-text.html
>
> We have a Sakai DB dump in this format which I need to restore, but as
> there
> doesn't seem to be any MySQL facility to restore from the 677 files in the
> tar archive automatically, I'll need to script it. Anyone done that
> already?
>
> I'm also interested to know what the usual practice is for backing up; do
> most of you do the standard mysqldump back-up to a single very large SQL
> file, and then have that backed up at the file-level by your normal back-up
> software (TSM, in our case)? Anyone have any opinions of the possible
> advantages of using the separated format?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Colin
>
>
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