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Backup and restore a mysql database from a running Docker mysql container
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mysql-docker.sh
# Backup
docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root DATABASE > backup.sql
# Restore
cat backup.sql | docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE
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amandiobm commented Mar 1, 2021

For Windows using Powershell with a large database you should use

Backup

docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root -r DATABASE | Set-Content backup.sql

It will preserve encoding from the Linux container.

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amandiobm commented Mar 1, 2021

docker exec some-mysql sh -c 'exec mysqldump --all-databases -uroot -p"$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD"' > /some/path/on/your/host/all-databases.sql

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