Comparison of Backup Tools

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Delimited file backups

To create a text file containing a table’s data, you can use SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'file_name' FROM tbl_name. The file is created on the MySQL server host, not the client host. For this statement, the output file cannot already exist because permitting files to be overwritten constitutes a security risk. See

Another way to create text data files (along with files containing CREATE TABLE statements for the backed up tables) is to use mysqldump with the --tab option. See Section 1.4.3, “Dumping Data in Delimited-Text Format with mysqldump”

To reload a delimited-text data file, use LOAD DATA INFILE or mysqlimport.

backup

mysql> select * into outfile '/db/backup/table1.txt'
	 > fields terminated by ',' optionally enclosed by '"'
	 > lines terminated by '\n'
	 > from test.table1;

recovery

mysql> load data infile '/db/backup/table1.txt'
	 > into table test.table1
	 > fields terminated by ',' optionally enclosed by '"'
	 > lines terminated by '\n';

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