Backing up tables and databases is very useful when you are learning to update records so that you can recover quickly when you do something wrong.
- create table if not exists newTable like oldTable; – Copies schema of old table to new table (columns, data types, etc). IF NOT EXISTS makes sure you do not overwrite a table you already created.
- insert newTable select * from oldTable; – copies all records from old table into new table
- LINUX SHELL> mysqldump -u username -p database > /location/dump.sql – backsup database to location specified with name specified. Make sure you have WRITE permission to the folder you point to
- LINUX SHELL> mysqladmin -u username -p create newDatabase – creates database from linux shell
- LINUX SHELL> mysql -u username -p newDatabase < /location/dump.sql – restores database from file to new database
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