mysql, dump, database restore

mysql database dump
Furqan Asghar picture Furqan Asghar · Feb 11, 2011 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I have dumped my database with the following command:

mysqldump -uuser -ppassword db_name > file

then I completely removed my database:

drop database db_name;

then I created a new database:

create database db_name;

and then I tried to restore the db with the following command:

mysqldump -uuser -ppassword db_name < file

The problem is that dump does not create tables and loads data in them and so the database remains empty however it does show a message like dump completed "date time"

What could be the reason for this?

Answer

Marc B picture Marc B · Feb 11, 2011

mysqldump is for dumping the database. You've created a new empty database, and then dumped that empty database. Use mysql instead to reload your dump

mysqldump db > dump.sql
mysql drop/create
mysql db < dump.sql

would be the basic command sequence.

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