At 9:30 AM -0500 03-15-2000, Jeffrey Mercer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I use
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>mysqldump --opt myDB > ~/bin/sqlbackup
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>to make daily backups.
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>But I'm not sure how to restore this information.
>
>I found a reference in the digest that said to use
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>"mysql monitor program"
>
>to restore data saved by mysqldump. What is this could someone be more
>specific? Is this the mysql client? What command should I use?
Yes, it's the mysql client. The output of mysqldump is simply SQL
statements that you execute by shoving them into mysql:
mysql db_name < dumpfile
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped