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Backing up and Restoring droplet MySQL database on my Windows computer
My Centos 6 droplet is running MySQL 5.1 . I have created and have been running an extensive database on the droplet .I’ve been controlling the droplet via a Putty console on my Windows 7 machine. What would be the best way for me to back up the content of my MySQL database onto my Windows machine and restore from it to the droplet ?
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The most direct method would be to use mysqldump to create a backup of your database as a .sql file. This guide from the official documentation should be helpful.
To re-import this data to your server you would want to drop all tables in your database and then import the .sql file: