Copy/duplicate database without using mysqldump

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jhornnes picture jhornnes · Aug 25, 2008 · Viewed 483.7k times · Source

Without local access to the server, is there any way to duplicate/clone a MySQL db (with content and without content) into another without using mysqldump?

I am currently using MySQL 4.0.

Answer

Rafe picture Rafe · Aug 18, 2011

I can see you said you didn't want to use mysqldump, but I reached this page while looking for a similar solution and others might find it as well. With that in mind, here is a simple way to duplicate a database from the command line of a windows server:

  1. Create the target database using MySQLAdmin or your preferred method. In this example, db2 is the target database, where the source database db1 will be copied.
  2. Execute the following statement on a command line:

mysqldump -h [server] -u [user] -p[password] db1 | mysql -h [server] -u [user] -p[password] db2

Note: There is NO space between -p and [password]

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