Export and Import all MySQL databases at one time

Question

I want to keep a backup of all my MySQL databases. I have more than 100 MySQL databases. I want to export all of them at the same time and again import all of them into my MySQL server at one time. How can I do that?

Solution 1

Export:

mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases > alldb.sql

Look up the documentation for mysqldump. You may want to use some of the options mentioned in comments:

mysqldump -u root -p --opt --all-databases > alldb.sql
mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases --skip-lock-tables > alldb.sql

Import:

mysql -u root -p < alldb.sql

Solution 2

Other solution:

It backs up each database into a different file

#!/bin/bash

USER="zend"
PASSWORD=""
#OUTPUT="/Users/rabino/DBs"

#rm "$OUTPUTDIR/*gz" > /dev/null 2>&1

databases=`mysql -u $USER -p$PASSWORD -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | tr -d "| " | grep -v Database`

for db in $databases; do
    if [[ "$db" != "information_schema" ]] && [[ "$db" != "performance_schema" ]] && [[ "$db" != "mysql" ]] && [[ "$db" != _* ]] ; then
        echo "Dumping database: $db"
        mysqldump -u $USER -p$PASSWORD --databases $db > `date +%Y%m%d`.$db.sql
       # gzip $OUTPUT/`date +%Y%m%d`.$db.sql
    fi
done

Solution 3

All the answers I see on this question can have problems with the character sets in some databases due to the problem of redirecting the exit of mysqldump to a file within the shell operator >.

To solve this problem you should do the backup with a command like this

mysqldump -u root -p --opt --all-databases -r backup.sql

To do a good BD restore without any problem with character sets. Obviously you can change the default-character-set as you need.

mysql -uroot -p --default-character-set=utf8
mysql> SET names 'utf8';
mysql> SOURCE backup.sql;

Solution 4

Based on these answers I've made script which backups all databases into separate files, but then compress them into one archive with date as name.

This will not ask for password, can be used in cron. To store password in .my.cnf check this answer https://serverfault.com/a/143587/62749

Made also with comments for those who are not very familiar with bash scripts.

#!/bin/bash

# This script will backup all mysql databases into 
# compressed file named after date, ie: /var/backup/mysql/2016-07-13.tar.bz2

# Setup variables used later

# Create date suffix with "F"ull date format
suffix=$(date +%F)
# Retrieve all database names except information schemas. Use sudo here to skip root password.
dbs=$(sudo mysql --defaults-extra-file=/root/.my.cnf --batch --skip-column-names -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | grep -E -v "(information|performance)_schema")
# Create temporary directory with "-d" option
tmp=$(mktemp -d)
# Set output dir here. /var/backups/ is used by system, 
# so intentionally used /var/backup/ for user backups.
outDir="/var/backup/mysql"
# Create output file name
out="$outDir/$suffix.tar.bz2"

# Actual script

# Check if output directory exists
if [ ! -d "$outDir" ];then
  # Create directory with parent ("-p" option) directories
  sudo mkdir -p "$outDir"
fi

# Loop through all databases
for db in $dbs; do
  # Dump database to temporary directory with file name same as database name + sql suffix
  sudo mysqldump --defaults-extra-file=/root/.my.cnf --databases "$db" > "$tmp/$db.sql"
done

# Go to tmp dir
cd $tmp

# Compress all dumps with bz2, discard any output to /dev/null
sudo tar -jcf "$out" * > "/dev/null"

# Cleanup
cd "/tmp/"
sudo rm -rf "$tmp"

Solution 5

I wrote this comment already more than 4 years ago and decided now to make it to an answer.

The script from jruzafa can be a bit simplified:

#!/bin/bash

USER="zend"
PASSWORD=""
ExcludeDatabases="Database|information_schema|performance_schema|mysql"
databases=`mysql -u $USER -p$PASSWORD -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | tr -d "| " | egrep -v $ExcludeDatabases`

for db in $databases; do
    echo "Dumping database: $db"
    mysqldump -u $USER -p$PASSWORD --databases $db > `date +%Y%m%d`.$db.sql
done

Note:

1. The excluded databases - prevalently the system tables - are provided in the variable ExcludeDatabases
2. Please be aware that the password is provided in the command line. This is considered as insecure. Study this question.

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