Backing Up and Restoring MySQL/MariaDB Databases Using SSH
For Linux Web Hosting packages
In this article, we'll show you how to back up and restore your database using the mysqldump tool.
Prerequisites
You need a web hosting package with shell access.
You can find the connection data for your database right in your IONOS account.
Please Note: If your file names, passwords, or user names contain special characters, write these in single quotation characters, such as password='password'.
A SQL dump will now be created. It is a text file containing all the data and instructions required to restore the database in SQL format.
Restoring Databases from a Backup
To restore a database from a .sql file, run the mysql command in the shell as follows:
mysql --host=dbxxxxx.hosting-data.io --user=dboXXXXXXX --password=geheimes_Passwort dbXXXXXXX < dbXXXXXXXX.sql If the SQL dump is compressed in the gzip format, use the following command:
gunzip -c dbXXXXXXX.sql.gz | mysql --host=dbxxxxx.hosting-data.io --user=dboXXXXXXX --password=geheimes_Passwort dbXXXXXXX Did this article help you?
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