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Development Tools Database Foundations Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database Backing up and Restoring Databases

Posted by Yiteng Zhang
Yiteng Zhang
1,889 Points

Restore of backup doesn't work

I'm following this video to create backup.sql, and it works. Here is how the commend line looks:

18:28:40 Dumping treehouse_movie_db (all tables)

Running: 

mysqldump.exe --defaults-extra-file="c:\users\arsena~1\appdata\local\temp\tmp1idbib.cnf"  --user=root --max_allowed_packet=1G --host=localhost --port=3306 --default-character-set=utf8 "treehouse_movie_db"

18:28:41 Export of C:\Users\arsenalchem\Desktop\backup.sql has finished

I then tried to restore it following the instructions in the video. Although the commend line says import has finished, nothing (i.e. treehouse_movie_db_clone) has shown up (even after I clicked refresh button in the schema navigation bar).

Here is how command line looks: 18:31:00 Restoring C:\Users\arsenalchem\Desktop\backup.sql

Running: 

mysql.exe --defaults-extra-file="c:\users\arsena~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpp5zufp.cnf"  --host=localhost --user=root --port=3306 --default-character-set=utf8 --comments --database=treehouse_movie_db < "C:\\Users\\arsenalchem\\Desktop\\backup.sql"

18:31:01 Import of C:\Users\arsenalchem\Desktop\backup.sql has finished

Anyone could give me a hint why this happens? Thank you very much in advance.

Yiteng Zhang
Yiteng Zhang
1,889 Points

For some reason, it works now. I think probably because I did not save the backup sql file after I changed database name to sth_clone.