ZuhaiBlog » backup http://zuhaiblog.com A blog about Zuhaib.. What you never heard of me? Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:21:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Backing up and Restoring your MySQL RDS Instance (and other Cloud DBs) http://zuhaiblog.com/2011/05/27/backing-up-and-restoring-your-mysql-rds-instance-and-other-cloud-dbs/ http://zuhaiblog.com/2011/05/27/backing-up-and-restoring-your-mysql-rds-instance-and-other-cloud-dbs/#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 05:25:33 +0000 zuhaib http://zuhaiblog.com/?p=9467 As more and more things move to the “cloud” as a Sys Admin you might find your self tasked with managing a Database that you don’t have shell access too. That has been the case for me with my last two jobs, Laughing Squid and now as Senior Sys Admin at Oxygen Cloud. With Oxygen we needed to backup some AWS RDS Instances and wanted to do it using a server on EC2 so we don’t have the bottle next of our local internet. This same method works with Rackspace Cloud Sites which I used at Laughing Squid. Its use a little known (could not find it easily with a google search) trick with mysqldump

mysqldump -P <port#> -h <server ip>-u mysql_user -p database_name table_name > backup.sql

To restore your DB in the cloud you use a more well-known mysql technique

mysql -u mysql_user -p -h <server ip> cloud_db_name < backup.sql
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