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NAME
mysqldump - a database backup program
SYNOPSIS
mysqldump [options] [db_name [tbl_name ...]]
DESCRIPTION
The mysqldump client utility performs logical backups, producing a set of SQL statements
that can be executed to reproduce the original database object definitions and table data.
It dumps one or more MySQL databases for backup or transfer to another SQL server. The
mysqldump command can also generate output in CSV, other delimited text, or XML format.
Tip
Consider using the MySQL Shell dump utilities[1], which provide parallel dumping with
multiple threads, file compression, and progress information display, as well as cloud
features such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage streaming, and MySQL
HeatWave Service compatibility checks and modifications. Dumps can be easily imported
into a MySQL Server instance or a MySQL HeatWave Service DB System using the MySQL
Shell load dump utilities[2]. Installation instructions for MySQL Shell can be found
here[3].
• Performance and Scalability Considerations
• Invocation Syntax
• Option Syntax - Alphabetical Summary
• Connection Options
• Option-File Options
• DDL Options
• Debug Options
• Help Options
• Internationalization Options
• Replication Options
• Format Options
• Filtering Options
• Performance Options
• Transactional Options
• Option Groups
• Examples
• Restrictions
mysqldump requires at least the SELECT privilege for dumped tables, SHOW VIEW for dumped
views, TRIGGER for dumped triggers, LOCK TABLES if the --single-transaction option is not
used, PROCESS (as of MySQL 8.0.21) if the --no-tablespaces option is not used, and (as of
MySQL 8.0.32) the RELOAD or FLUSH_TABLES privilege with --single-transaction if both
gtid_mode=ON and gtid_purged=ON|AUTO. Certain options might require other privileges as
noted in the option descriptions.
To reload a dump file, you must have the privileges required to execute the statements
that it contains, such as the appropriate CREATE privileges for objects created by those
statements.
mysqldump output can include ALTER DATABASE statements that change the database collation.
These may be used when dumping stored programs to preserve their character encodings. To
reload a dump file containing such statements, the ALTER privilege for the affected
database is required.
Note
A dump made using PowerShell on Windows with output redirection creates a file that
has UTF-16 encoding:
mysqldump [options] > dump.sql
However, UTF-16 is not permitted as a connection character set (see the section called
“Impermissible Client Character Sets”), so the dump file cannot be loaded correctly.
To work around this issue, use the --result-file option, which creates the output in
ASCII format:
mysqldump [options] --result-file=dump.sql
It is not recommended to load a dump file when GTIDs are enabled on the server
(gtid_mode=ON), if your dump file includes system tables. mysqldump issues DML
instructions for the system tables which use the non-transactional MyISAM storage engine,
and this combination is not permitted when GTIDs are enabled. Performance and Scalability
Considerations
mysqldump advantages include the convenience and flexibility of viewing or even editing
the output before restoring. You can clone databases for development and DBA work, or
produce slight variations of an existing database for testing. It is not intended as a
fast or scalable solution for backing up substantial amounts of data. With large data
sizes, even if the backup step takes a reasonable time, restoring the data can be very
slow because replaying the SQL statements involves disk I/O for insertion, index creation,
and so on.
For large-scale backup and restore, a physical backup is more appropriate, to copy the
data files in their original format so that they can be restored quickly.
If your tables are primarily InnoDB tables, or if you have a mix of InnoDB and MyISAM
tables, consider using mysqlbackup, which is available as part of MySQL Enterprise. This
tool provides high performance for InnoDB backups with minimal disruption; it can also
back up tables from MyISAM and other storage engines; it also provides a number of
convenient options to accommodate different backup scenarios. See Section 32.1, “MySQL
Enterprise Backup Overview”.
mysqldump can retrieve and dump table contents row by row, or it can retrieve the entire
content from a table and buffer it in memory before dumping it. Buffering in memory can be
a problem if you are dumping large tables. To dump tables row by row, use the --quick
option (or --opt, which enables --quick). The --opt option (and hence --quick) is enabled
by default, so to enable memory buffering, use --skip-quick.
If you are using a recent version of mysqldump to generate a dump to be reloaded into a
very old MySQL server, use the --skip-opt option instead of the --opt or --extended-insert
option.
For additional information about mysqldump, see Section 9.4, “Using mysqldump for
Backups”. Invocation Syntax
There are in general three ways to use mysqldump—in order to dump a set of one or more
tables, a set of one or more complete databases, or an entire MySQL server—as shown here:
mysqldump [options] db_name [tbl_name ...]
mysqldump [options] --databases db_name ...
mysqldump [options] --all-databases
To dump entire databases, do not name any tables following db_name, or use the --databases
or --all-databases option.
To see a list of the options your version of mysqldump supports, issue the command
mysqldump --help. Option Syntax - Alphabetical Summary
mysqldump supports the following options, which can be specified on the command line or in
the [mysqldump] and [client] groups of an option file. For information about option files
used by MySQL programs, see Section 6.2.2.2, “Using Option Files”. Connection Options
The mysqldump command logs into a MySQL server to extract information. The following
options specify how to connect to the MySQL server, either on the same machine or a remote
system.
• --bind-address=ip_address
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --bind-address=ip_address │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
On a computer having multiple network interfaces, use this option to select which
interface to use for connecting to the MySQL server.
• --compress, -C
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --compress[={OFF|ON}] │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Deprecated │ 8.0.18 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ OFF │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
Compress all information sent between the client and the server if possible. See
Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.
As of MySQL 8.0.18, this option is deprecated. Expect it to be removed in a future
version of MySQL. See the section called “Configuring Legacy Connection Compression”.
• --compression-algorithms=value
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --compression-algorithms=value │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.18 │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Set │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ uncompressed │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ zlib │
│ │ │
│ │ zstd │
│ │ │
│ │ uncompressed │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
The permitted compression algorithms for connections to the server. The available
algorithms are the same as for the protocol_compression_algorithms system variable.
The default value is uncompressed.
For more information, see Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.
This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.
• --default-auth=plugin
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --default-auth=plugin │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
A hint about which client-side authentication plugin to use. See Section 8.2.17,
“Pluggable Authentication”.
• --enable-cleartext-plugin
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --enable-cleartext-plugin │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ FALSE │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
Enable the mysql_clear_password cleartext authentication plugin. (See Section 8.4.1.4,
“Client-Side Cleartext Pluggable Authentication”.)
• --get-server-public-key
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --get-server-public-key │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
Request from the server the public key required for RSA key pair-based password
exchange. This option applies to clients that authenticate with the
caching_sha2_password authentication plugin. For that plugin, the server does not send
the public key unless requested. This option is ignored for accounts that do not
authenticate with that plugin. It is also ignored if RSA-based password exchange is
not used, as is the case when the client connects to the server using a secure
connection.
If --server-public-key-path=file_name is given and specifies a valid public key file,
it takes precedence over --get-server-public-key.
For information about the caching_sha2_password plugin, see Section 8.4.1.2, “Caching
SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication”.
• --host=host_name, -h host_name
┌────────────────────┬────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --host │
└────────────────────┴────────┘
Dump data from the MySQL server on the given host. The default host is localhost.
• --login-path=name
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --login-path=name │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
Read options from the named login path in the .mylogin.cnf login path file. A “login
path” is an option group containing options that specify which MySQL server to connect
to and which account to authenticate as. To create or modify a login path file, use
the mysql_config_editor utility. See mysql_config_editor(1).
For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.
• --password[=password], -p[password]
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --password[=password] │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
The password of the MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The password
value is optional. If not given, mysqldump prompts for one. If given, there must be no
space between --password= or -p and the password following it. If no password option
is specified, the default is to send no password.
Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. To avoid
giving the password on the command line, use an option file. See Section 8.1.2.1,
“End-User Guidelines for Password Security”.
To explicitly specify that there is no password and that mysqldump should not prompt
for one, use the --skip-password option.
• --password1[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 1 of the
MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The password value is optional. If
not given, mysqldump prompts for one. If given, there must be no space between
--password1= and the password following it. If no password option is specified, the
default is to send no password.
Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. To avoid
giving the password on the command line, use an option file. See Section 8.1.2.1,
“End-User Guidelines for Password Security”.
To explicitly specify that there is no password and that mysqldump should not prompt
for one, use the --skip-password1 option.
--password1 and --password are synonymous, as are --skip-password1 and
--skip-password.
• --password2[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 2 of the
MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The semantics of this option are
similar to the semantics for --password1; see the description of that option for
details.
• --password3[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 3 of the
MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The semantics of this option are
similar to the semantics for --password1; see the description of that option for
details.
• --pipe, -W
┌────────────────────┬────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --pipe │
├────────────────────┼────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴────────┘
On Windows, connect to the server using a named pipe. This option applies only if the
server was started with the named_pipe system variable enabled to support named-pipe
connections. In addition, the user making the connection must be a member of the
Windows group specified by the named_pipe_full_access_group system variable.
• --plugin-authentication-kerberos-client-mode=value
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --plugin-authentication- │
│ │ kerberos-client-mode │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.32 │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ SSPI │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ GSSAPI │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
On Windows, the authentication_kerberos_client authentication plugin supports this
plugin option. It provides two possible values that the client user can set at
runtime: SSPI and GSSAPI.
The default value for the client-side plugin option uses Security Support Provider
Interface (SSPI), which is capable of acquiring credentials from the Windows in-memory
cache. Alternatively, the client user can select a mode that supports Generic Security
Service Application Program Interface (GSSAPI) through the MIT Kerberos library on
Windows. GSSAPI is capable of acquiring cached credentials previously generated by
using the kinit command.
For more information, see Commands for Windows Clients in GSSAPI Mode.
• --plugin-dir=dir_name
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --plugin-dir=dir_name │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Type │ Directory name │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
The directory in which to look for plugins. Specify this option if the --default-auth
option is used to specify an authentication plugin but mysqldump does not find it. See
Section 8.2.17, “Pluggable Authentication”.
• --port=port_num, -P port_num
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --port=port_num │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│Type │ Numeric │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│Default Value │ 3306 │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
For TCP/IP connections, the port number to use.
• --protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --protocol=type │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│Default Value │ [see text] │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ TCP │
│ │ │
│ │ SOCKET │
│ │ │
│ │ PIPE │
│ │ │
│ │ MEMORY │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
The transport protocol to use for connecting to the server. It is useful when the
other connection parameters normally result in use of a protocol other than the one
you want. For details on the permissible values, see Section 6.2.7, “Connection
Transport Protocols”.
• --server-public-key-path=file_name
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --server-public-key- │
│ │ path=file_name │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Type │ File name │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
The path name to a file in PEM format containing a client-side copy of the public key
required by the server for RSA key pair-based password exchange. This option applies
to clients that authenticate with the sha256_password or caching_sha2_password
authentication plugin. This option is ignored for accounts that do not authenticate
with one of those plugins. It is also ignored if RSA-based password exchange is not
used, as is the case when the client connects to the server using a secure connection.
If --server-public-key-path=file_name is given and specifies a valid public key file,
it takes precedence over --get-server-public-key.
For sha256_password, this option applies only if MySQL was built using OpenSSL.
For information about the sha256_password and caching_sha2_password plugins, see
Section 8.4.1.3, “SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication”, and Section 8.4.1.2, “Caching
SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication”.
• --socket=path, -S path
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --socket={file_name|pipe_name} │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on Windows, the name of
the named pipe to use.
On Windows, this option applies only if the server was started with the named_pipe
system variable enabled to support named-pipe connections. In addition, the user
making the connection must be a member of the Windows group specified by the
named_pipe_full_access_group system variable.
• --ssl* Options that begin with --ssl specify whether to connect to the server using
encryption and indicate where to find SSL keys and certificates. See the section
called “Command Options for Encrypted Connections”.
• --ssl-fips-mode={OFF|ON|STRICT}
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --ssl-fips-mode={OFF|ON|STRICT} │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Deprecated │ 8.0.34 │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Enumeration │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ OFF │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ OFF │
│ │ │
│ │ ON │
│ │ │
│ │ STRICT │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
Controls whether to enable FIPS mode on the client side. The --ssl-fips-mode option
differs from other --ssl-xxx options in that it is not used to establish encrypted
connections, but rather to affect which cryptographic operations to permit. See
Section 8.8, “FIPS Support”.
These --ssl-fips-mode values are permitted:
• OFF: Disable FIPS mode.
• ON: Enable FIPS mode.
• STRICT: Enable “strict” FIPS mode.
Note
If the OpenSSL FIPS Object Module is not available, the only permitted value for
--ssl-fips-mode is OFF. In this case, setting --ssl-fips-mode to ON or STRICT
causes the client to produce a warning at startup and to operate in non-FIPS mode.
As of MySQL 8.0.34, this option is deprecated. Expect it to be removed in a future
version of MySQL.
• --tls-ciphersuites=ciphersuite_list
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --tls- │
│ │ ciphersuites=ciphersuite_list │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.16 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
The permissible ciphersuites for encrypted connections that use TLSv1.3. The value is
a list of one or more colon-separated ciphersuite names. The ciphersuites that can be
named for this option depend on the SSL library used to compile MySQL. For details,
see Section 8.3.2, “Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers”.
This option was added in MySQL 8.0.16.
• --tls-version=protocol_list
┌─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --tls-version=protocol_list │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value (≥ 8.0.16) │ │
│ │ TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3 │
│ │ (OpenSSL 1.1.1 or │
│ │ higher) │
│ │ │
│ │ TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 │
│ │ (otherwise) │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value (≤ 8.0.15) │ TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 │
└─────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘
The permissible TLS protocols for encrypted connections. The value is a list of one or
more comma-separated protocol names. The protocols that can be named for this option
depend on the SSL library used to compile MySQL. For details, see Section 8.3.2,
“Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers”.
• --user=user_name, -u user_name
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --user=user_name │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
The user name of the MySQL account to use for connecting to the server.
If you are using the Rewriter plugin with MySQL 8.0.31 or later, you should grant this
user the SKIP_QUERY_REWRITE privilege.
• --zstd-compression-level=level
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --zstd-compression-level=# │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.18 │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Integer │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
The compression level to use for connections to the server that use the zstd
compression algorithm. The permitted levels are from 1 to 22, with larger values
indicating increasing levels of compression. The default zstd compression level is 3.
The compression level setting has no effect on connections that do not use zstd
compression.
For more information, see Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.
This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.
Option-File Options
These options are used to control which option files to read.
• --defaults-extra-file=file_name
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --defaults-extra-file=file_name │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ File name │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
Read this option file after the global option file but (on Unix) before the user
option file. If the file does not exist or is otherwise inaccessible, an error occurs.
If file_name is not an absolute path name, it is interpreted relative to the current
directory.
For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.
• --defaults-file=file_name
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --defaults-file=file_name │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│Type │ File name │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
Use only the given option file. If the file does not exist or is otherwise
inaccessible, an error occurs. If file_name is not an absolute path name, it is
interpreted relative to the current directory.
Exception: Even with --defaults-file, client programs read .mylogin.cnf.
For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.
• --defaults-group-suffix=str
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --defaults-group-suffix=str │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
Read not only the usual option groups, but also groups with the usual names and a
suffix of str. For example, mysqldump normally reads the [client] and [mysqldump]
groups. If this option is given as --defaults-group-suffix=_other, mysqldump also
reads the [client_other] and [mysqldump_other] groups.
For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.
• --no-defaults
┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --no-defaults │
└────────────────────┴───────────────┘
Do not read any option files. If program startup fails due to reading unknown options
from an option file, --no-defaults can be used to prevent them from being read.
The exception is that the .mylogin.cnf file is read in all cases, if it exists. This
permits passwords to be specified in a safer way than on the command line even when
--no-defaults is used. To create .mylogin.cnf, use the mysql_config_editor utility.
See mysql_config_editor(1).
For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.
• --print-defaults
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --print-defaults │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
Print the program name and all options that it gets from option files.
For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.
DDL Options
Usage scenarios for mysqldump include setting up an entire new MySQL instance (including
database tables), and replacing data inside an existing instance with existing databases
and tables. The following options let you specify which things to tear down and set up
when restoring a dump, by encoding various DDL statements within the dump file.
• --add-drop-database
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --add-drop-database │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
Write a DROP DATABASE statement before each CREATE DATABASE statement. This option is
typically used in conjunction with the --all-databases or --databases option because
no CREATE DATABASE statements are written unless one of those options is specified.
Note
In MySQL 8.0, the mysql schema is considered a system schema that cannot be
dropped by end users. If --add-drop-database is used with --all-databases or with
--databases where the list of schemas to be dumped includes mysql, the dump file
contains a DROP DATABASE `mysql` statement that causes an error when the dump file
is reloaded.
Instead, to use --add-drop-database, use --databases with a list of schemas to be
dumped, where the list does not include mysql.
• --add-drop-table
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --add-drop-table │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
Write a DROP TABLE statement before each CREATE TABLE statement.
• --add-drop-trigger
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --add-drop-trigger │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
Write a DROP TRIGGER statement before each CREATE TRIGGER statement.
• --all-tablespaces, -Y
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --all-tablespaces │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
Adds to a table dump all SQL statements needed to create any tablespaces used by an
NDB table. This information is not otherwise included in the output from mysqldump.
This option is currently relevant only to NDB Cluster tables.
• --no-create-db, -n
┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --no-create-db │
└────────────────────┴────────────────┘
Suppress the CREATE DATABASE statements that are otherwise included in the output if
the --databases or --all-databases option is given.
• --no-create-info, -t
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --no-create-info │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
Do not write CREATE TABLE statements that create each dumped table.
Note
This option does not exclude statements creating log file groups or tablespaces
from mysqldump output; however, you can use the --no-tablespaces option for this
purpose.
• --no-tablespaces, -y
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --no-tablespaces │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
This option suppresses all CREATE LOGFILE GROUP and CREATE TABLESPACE statements in
the output of mysqldump.
• --replace
┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --replace │
└────────────────────┴───────────┘
Write REPLACE statements rather than INSERT statements.
Debug Options
The following options print debugging information, encode debugging information in the
dump file, or let the dump operation proceed regardless of potential problems.
• --allow-keywords
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --allow-keywords │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
Permit creation of column names that are keywords. This works by prefixing each column
name with the table name.
• --comments, -i
┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --comments │
└────────────────────┴────────────┘
Write additional information in the dump file such as program version, server version,
and host. This option is enabled by default. To suppress this additional information,
use --skip-comments.
• --debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options]
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --debug[=debug_options] │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ d:t:o,/tmp/mysqldump.trace │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is d:t:o,file_name. The default
value is d:t:o,/tmp/mysqldump.trace.
This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release
binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this option.
• --debug-check
┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --debug-check │
├────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│Default Value │ FALSE │
└────────────────────┴───────────────┘
Print some debugging information when the program exits.
This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release
binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this option.
• --debug-info
┌────────────────────┬──────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --debug-info │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┤
│Default Value │ FALSE │
└────────────────────┴──────────────┘
Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage statistics when the program
exits.
This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release
binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this option.
• --dump-date
┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --dump-date │
├────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│Default Value │ TRUE │
└────────────────────┴─────────────┘
If the --comments option is given, mysqldump produces a comment at the end of the dump
of the following form:
-- Dump completed on DATE
However, the date causes dump files taken at different times to appear to be
different, even if the data are otherwise identical. --dump-date and --skip-dump-date
control whether the date is added to the comment. The default is --dump-date (include
the date in the comment). --skip-dump-date suppresses date printing.
• --force, -f
┌────────────────────┬─────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --force │
└────────────────────┴─────────┘
Ignore all errors; continue even if an SQL error occurs during a table dump.
One use for this option is to cause mysqldump to continue executing even when it
encounters a view that has become invalid because the definition refers to a table
that has been dropped. Without --force, mysqldump exits with an error message. With
--force, mysqldump prints the error message, but it also writes an SQL comment
containing the view definition to the dump output and continues executing.
If the --ignore-error option is also given to ignore specific errors, --force takes
precedence.
• --log-error=file_name
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --log-error=file_name │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Type │ File name │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
Log warnings and errors by appending them to the named file. The default is to do no
logging.
• --skip-comments
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --skip-comments │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
See the description for the --comments option.
• --verbose, -v
┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --verbose │
└────────────────────┴───────────┘
Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
Help Options
The following options display information about the mysqldump command itself.
• --help, -?
┌────────────────────┬────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --help │
└────────────────────┴────────┘
Display a help message and exit.
• --version, -V
┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --version │
└────────────────────┴───────────┘
Display version information and exit.
Internationalization Options
The following options change how the mysqldump command represents character data with
national language settings.
• --character-sets-dir=dir_name
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --character-sets-dir=dir_name │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Directory name │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
The directory where character sets are installed. See Section 12.15, “Character Set
Configuration”.
• --default-character-set=charset_name
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --default-character- │
│ │ set=charset_name │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ utf8 │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
Use charset_name as the default character set. See Section 12.15, “Character Set
Configuration”. If no character set is specified, mysqldump uses utf8mb4.
• --no-set-names, -N
┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --no-set-names │
├────────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Deprecated │ Yes │
└────────────────────┴────────────────┘
Turns off the --set-charset setting, the same as specifying --skip-set-charset.
• --set-charset
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --set-charset │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│Disabled by │ skip-set-charset │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
Write SET NAMES default_character_set to the output. This option is enabled by
default. To suppress the SET NAMES statement, use --skip-set-charset.
Replication Options
The mysqldump command is frequently used to create an empty instance, or an instance
including data, on a replica server in a replication configuration. The following options
apply to dumping and restoring data on replication source servers and replicas.
• --apply-replica-statements
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --apply-replica-statements │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.26 │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ FALSE │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
From MySQL 8.0.26, use --apply-replica-statements, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use
--apply-slave-statements. Both options have the same effect. For a replica dump
produced with the --dump-replica or --dump-slave option, the options add a STOP
REPLICA (or before MySQL 8.0.22, STOP SLAVE) statement before the statement with the
binary log coordinates, and a START REPLICA statement at the end of the output.
• --apply-slave-statements
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --apply-slave-statements │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│Deprecated │ 8.0.26 │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ FALSE │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --apply-replica-statements. Both
options have the same effect.
• --delete-source-logs
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --delete-source-logs │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.26 │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
From MySQL 8.0.26, use --delete-source-logs, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use
--delete-master-logs. Both options have the same effect. On a replication source
server, the options delete the binary logs by sending a PURGE BINARY LOGS statement to
the server after performing the dump operation. The options require the RELOAD
privilege as well as privileges sufficient to execute that statement. The options
automatically enable --source-data or --master-data.
• --delete-master-logs
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --delete-master-logs │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Deprecated │ 8.0.26 │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --delete-source-logs. Both options
have the same effect.
• --dump-replica[=value]
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --dump-replica[=value] │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.26 │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Numeric │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ 1 │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ 1 │
│ │ │
│ │ 2 │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────┘
From MySQL 8.0.26, use --dump-replica, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use --dump-slave. Both
options have the same effect. The options are similar to --source-data, except that
they are used to dump a replica server to produce a dump file that can be used to set
up another server as a replica that has the same source as the dumped server. The
options cause the dump output to include a CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO statement
(from MySQL 8.0.23) or CHANGE MASTER TO statement (before MySQL 8.0.23) that indicates
the binary log coordinates (file name and position) of the dumped replica's source.
The CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO statement reads the values of Relay_Master_Log_File
and Exec_Master_Log_Pos from the SHOW REPLICA STATUS output and uses them for
SOURCE_LOG_FILE and SOURCE_LOG_POS respectively. These are the replication source
server coordinates from which the replica starts replicating.
Note
Inconsistencies in the sequence of transactions from the relay log which have been
executed can cause the wrong position to be used. See Section 19.5.1.34,
“Replication and Transaction Inconsistencies” for more information.
--dump-replica or --dump-slave causes the coordinates from the source to be used
rather than those of the dumped server, as is done by the --source-data or
--master-data option. In addition, specifying this option causes the --source-data or
--master-data option to be overridden, if used, and effectively ignored.
Warning
--dump-replica or --dump-slave should not be used if the server where the dump is
going to be applied uses gtid_mode=ON and SOURCE_AUTO_POSITION=1 or
MASTER_AUTO_POSITION=1.
The option value is handled the same way as for --source-data. Setting no value or 1
causes a CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO statement (from MySQL 8.0.23) or CHANGE MASTER
TO statement (before MySQL 8.0.23) to be written to the dump. Setting 2 causes the
statement to be written but encased in SQL comments. It has the same effect as
--source-data in terms of enabling or disabling other options and in how locking is
handled.
--dump-replica or --dump-slave causes mysqldump to stop the replication SQL thread
before the dump and restart it again after.
--dump-replica or --dump-slave sends a SHOW REPLICA STATUS statement to the server to
obtain information, so they require privileges sufficient to execute that statement.
--apply-replica-statements and --include-source-host-port options can be used in
conjunction with --dump-replica or --dump-slave.
• --dump-slave[=value]
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --dump-slave[=value] │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Deprecated │ 8.0.26 │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Type │ Numeric │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ 1 │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ 1 │
│ │ │
│ │ 2 │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --dump-replica. Both options have the
same effect.
• --include-source-host-port
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --include-source-host-port │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.26 │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ FALSE │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
From MySQL 8.0.26, use --include-source-host-port, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use
--include-master-host-port. Both options have the same effect. The options add the
SOURCE_HOST | MASTER_HOST and SOURCE_PORT | MASTER_PORT options for the host name and
TCP/IP port number of the replica's source, to the CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO
statement (from MySQL 8.0.23) or CHANGE MASTER TO statement (before MySQL 8.0.23) in a
replica dump produced with the --dump-replica or --dump-slave option.
• --include-master-host-port
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --include-master-host-port │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Deprecated │ 8.0.26 │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ FALSE │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --include-source-host-port. Both
options have the same effect.
• --source-data[=value]
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --source-data[=value] │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.26 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Type │ Numeric │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ 1 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ 1 │
│ │ │
│ │ 2 │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
From MySQL 8.0.26, use --source-data, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use --master-data. Both
options have the same effect. The options are used to dump a replication source server
to produce a dump file that can be used to set up another server as a replica of the
source. The options cause the dump output to include a CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO
statement (from MySQL 8.0.23) or CHANGE MASTER TO statement (before MySQL 8.0.23) that
indicates the binary log coordinates (file name and position) of the dumped server.
These are the replication source server coordinates from which the replica should
start replicating after you load the dump file into the replica.
If the option value is 2, the CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO | CHANGE MASTER TO
statement is written as an SQL comment, and thus is informative only; it has no effect
when the dump file is reloaded. If the option value is 1, the statement is not written
as a comment and takes effect when the dump file is reloaded. If no option value is
specified, the default value is 1.
--source-data and --master-data send a SHOW MASTER STATUS statement to the server to
obtain information, so they require privileges sufficient to execute that statement.
This option also requires the RELOAD privilege and the binary log must be enabled.
--source-data and --master-data automatically turn off --lock-tables. They also turn
on --lock-all-tables, unless --single-transaction also is specified, in which case, a
global read lock is acquired only for a short time at the beginning of the dump (see
the description for --single-transaction). In all cases, any action on logs happens at
the exact moment of the dump.
It is also possible to set up a replica by dumping an existing replica of the source,
using the --dump-replica or --dump-slave option, which overrides --source-data and
--master-data and causes them to be ignored.
• --master-data[=value]
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --master-data[=value] │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Deprecated │ 8.0.26 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Type │ Numeric │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ 1 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ 1 │
│ │ │
│ │ 2 │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --source-data. Both options have the
same effect.
• --set-gtid-purged=value
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --set-gtid-purged=value │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Enumeration │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ AUTO │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ OFF │
│ │ │
│ │ ON │
│ │ │
│ │ AUTO │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
This option is for servers that use GTID-based replication (gtid_mode=ON). It controls
the inclusion of a SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement in the dump output, which
updates the value of gtid_purged on a server where the dump file is reloaded, to add
the GTID set from the source server's gtid_executed system variable. gtid_purged
holds the GTIDs of all transactions that have been applied on the server, but do not
exist on any binary log file on the server. mysqldump therefore adds the GTIDs for
the transactions that were executed on the source server, so that the target server
records these transactions as applied, although it does not have them in its binary
logs. --set-gtid-purged also controls the inclusion of a SET @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0
statement, which disables binary logging while the dump file is being reloaded. This
statement prevents new GTIDs from being generated and assigned to the transactions in
the dump file as they are executed, so that the original GTIDs for the transactions
are used.
If you do not set the --set-gtid-purged option, the default is that a SET
@@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement is included in the dump output if GTIDs are enabled on
the server you are backing up, and the set of GTIDs in the global value of the
gtid_executed system variable is not empty. A SET @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 statement is
also included if GTIDs are enabled on the server.
You can either replace the value of gtid_purged with a specified GTID set, or add a
plus sign (+) to the statement to append a specified GTID set to the GTID set that is
already held by gtid_purged. The SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement recorded by
mysqldump includes a plus sign (+) in a version-specific comment, such that MySQL adds
the GTID set from the dump file to the existing gtid_purged value.
It is important to note that the value that is included by mysqldump for the SET
@@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement includes the GTIDs of all transactions in the
gtid_executed set on the server, even those that changed suppressed parts of the
database, or other databases on the server that were not included in a partial dump.
This can mean that after the gtid_purged value has been updated on the server where
the dump file is replayed, GTIDs are present that do not relate to any data on the
target server. If you do not replay any further dump files on the target server, the
extraneous GTIDs do not cause any problems with the future operation of the server,
but they make it harder to compare or reconcile GTID sets on different servers in the
replication topology. If you do replay a further dump file on the target server that
contains the same GTIDs (for example, another partial dump from the same origin
server), any SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement in the second dump file fails. In this
case, either remove the statement manually before replaying the dump file, or output
the dump file without the statement.
Before MySQL 8.0.32: Using this option with the --single-transaction option could lead
to inconsistencies in the output. If --set-gtid-purged=ON is required, it can be used
with --lock-all-tables, but this can prevent parallel queries while mysqldump is being
run.
If the SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement would not have the desired result on your
target server, you can exclude the statement from the output, or (from MySQL 8.0.17)
include it but comment it out so that it is not actioned automatically. You can also
include the statement but manually edit it in the dump file to achieve the desired
result.
The possible values for the --set-gtid-purged option are as follows:
AUTO
The default value. If GTIDs are enabled on the server you are backing up and
gtid_executed is not empty, SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is added to the output,
containing the GTID set from gtid_executed. If GTIDs are enabled, SET
@@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 is added to the output. If GTIDs are not enabled on the
server, the statements are not added to the output.
OFF
SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is not added to the output, and SET
@@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 is not added to the output. For a server where GTIDs are
not in use, use this option or AUTO. Only use this option for a server where GTIDs
are in use if you are sure that the required GTID set is already present in
gtid_purged on the target server and should not be changed, or if you plan to
identify and add any missing GTIDs manually.
ON
If GTIDs are enabled on the server you are backing up, SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is
added to the output (unless gtid_executed is empty), and SET
@@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 is added to the output. An error occurs if you set this
option but GTIDs are not enabled on the server. For a server where GTIDs are in
use, use this option or AUTO, unless you are sure that the GTIDs in gtid_executed
are not needed on the target server.
COMMENTED
Available from MySQL 8.0.17. If GTIDs are enabled on the server you are backing
up, SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is added to the output (unless gtid_executed is
empty), but it is commented out. This means that the value of gtid_executed is
available in the output, but no action is taken automatically when the dump file
is reloaded. SET @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 is added to the output, and it is not
commented out. With COMMENTED, you can control the use of the gtid_executed set
manually or through automation. For example, you might prefer to do this if you
are migrating data to another server that already has different active databases.
Format Options
The following options specify how to represent the entire dump file or certain kinds of
data in the dump file. They also control whether certain optional information is written
to the dump file.
• --compact
┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --compact │
└────────────────────┴───────────┘
Produce more compact output. This option enables the --skip-add-drop-table,
--skip-add-locks, --skip-comments, --skip-disable-keys, and --skip-set-charset
options.
• --compatible=name
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --compatible=name[,name,...] │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│Valid Values │ │
│ │ ansi │
│ │ │
│ │ mysql323 │
│ │ │
│ │ mysql40 │
│ │ │
│ │ postgresql │
│ │ │
│ │ oracle │
│ │ │
│ │ mssql │
│ │ │
│ │ db2 │
│ │ │
│ │ maxdb │
│ │ │
│ │ no_key_options │
│ │ │
│ │ no_table_options │
│ │ │
│ │ no_key_options │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
Produce output that is more compatible with other database systems or with older MySQL
servers. The only permitted value for this option is ansi, which has the same meaning
as the corresponding option for setting the server SQL mode. See Section 7.1.11,
“Server SQL Modes”.
• --complete-insert, -c
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --complete-insert │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
Use complete INSERT statements that include column names.
• --create-options
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --create-options │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
Include all MySQL-specific table options in the CREATE TABLE statements.
• --fields-terminated-by=..., --fields-enclosed-by=...,
--fields-optionally-enclosed-by=..., --fields-escaped-by=...
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --fields-terminated-by=string │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --fields-enclosed-by=string │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --fields-optionally-enclosed- │
│ │ by=string │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --fields-escaped-by │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
These options are used with the --tab option and have the same meaning as the
corresponding FIELDS clauses for LOAD DATA. See Section 15.2.9, “LOAD DATA Statement”.
• --hex-blob
┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --hex-blob │
└────────────────────┴────────────┘
Dump binary columns using hexadecimal notation (for example, 'abc' becomes 0x616263).
The affected data types are BINARY, VARBINARY, BLOB types, BIT, all spatial data
types, and other non-binary data types when used with the binary character set.
The --hex-blob option is ignored when the --tab is used.
• --lines-terminated-by=...
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --lines-terminated-by=string │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
This option is used with the --tab option and has the same meaning as the
corresponding LINES clause for LOAD DATA. See Section 15.2.9, “LOAD DATA Statement”.
• --quote-names, -Q
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --quote-names │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│Disabled by │ skip-quote-names │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
Quote identifiers (such as database, table, and column names) within ` characters. If
the ANSI_QUOTES SQL mode is enabled, identifiers are quoted within " characters. This
option is enabled by default. It can be disabled with --skip-quote-names, but this
option should be given after any option such as --compatible that may enable
--quote-names.
• --result-file=file_name, -r file_name
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --result-file=file_name │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Type │ File name │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
Direct output to the named file. The result file is created and its previous contents
overwritten, even if an error occurs while generating the dump.
This option should be used on Windows to prevent newline \n characters from being
converted to \r\n carriage return/newline sequences.
• --show-create-skip-secondary-engine=value
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --show-create-skip-secondary- │
│ │ engine │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.18 │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
Excludes the SECONDARY ENGINE clause from CREATE TABLE statements. It does so by
enabling the show_create_table_skip_secondary_engine system variable for the duration
of the dump operation. Alternatively, you can enable the
show_create_table_skip_secondary_engine system variable prior to using mysqldump.
This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18. Attempting a mysqldump operation with the
--show-create-skip-secondary-engine option on a release prior to MySQL 8.0.18 that
does not support the show_create_table_skip_secondary_engine variable causes an error.
• --tab=dir_name, -T dir_name
┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --tab=dir_name │
├────────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Type │ Directory name │
└────────────────────┴────────────────┘
Produce tab-separated text-format data files. For each dumped table, mysqldump creates
a tbl_name.sql file that contains the CREATE TABLE statement that creates the table,
and the server writes a tbl_name.txt file that contains its data. The option value is
the directory in which to write the files.
Note
This option should be used only when mysqldump is run on the same machine as the
mysqld server. Because the server creates *.txt files in the directory that you
specify, the directory must be writable by the server and the MySQL account that
you use must have the FILE privilege. Because mysqldump creates *.sql in the same
directory, it must be writable by your system login account.
By default, the .txt data files are formatted using tab characters between column
values and a newline at the end of each line. The format can be specified explicitly
using the --fields-xxx and --lines-terminated-by options.
Column values are converted to the character set specified by the
--default-character-set option.
• --tz-utc
┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --tz-utc │
├────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│Disabled by │ skip-tz-utc │
└────────────────────┴─────────────┘
This option enables TIMESTAMP columns to be dumped and reloaded between servers in
different time zones. mysqldump sets its connection time zone to UTC and adds SET
TIME_ZONE='+00:00' to the dump file. Without this option, TIMESTAMP columns are dumped
and reloaded in the time zones local to the source and destination servers, which can
cause the values to change if the servers are in different time zones. --tz-utc also
protects against changes due to daylight saving time. --tz-utc is enabled by default.
To disable it, use --skip-tz-utc.
• --xml, -X
┌────────────────────┬───────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --xml │
└────────────────────┴───────┘
Write dump output as well-formed XML.
NULL, 'NULL', and Empty Values: For a column named column_name, the NULL value, an
empty string, and the string value 'NULL' are distinguished from one another in the
output generated by this option as follows.
┌─────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Value: │ XML Representation: │
├─────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│NULL (unknown value) │ │
│ │ <field │
│ │ name="column_name" │
│ │ xsi:nil="true" /> │
├─────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │ │
│ │ <field │
│ │ name="column_name"></field> │
├─────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │ │
│ │ <field │
│ │ name="column_name">NULL</field> │
└─────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The output from the mysql client when run using the --xml option also follows the
preceding rules. (See the section called “MYSQL CLIENT OPTIONS”.)
XML output from mysqldump includes the XML namespace, as shown here:
$> mysqldump --xml -u root world City
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mysqldump xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<database name="world">
<table_structure name="City">
<field Field="ID" Type="int(11)" Null="NO" Key="PRI" Extra="auto_increment" />
<field Field="Name" Type="char(35)" Null="NO" Key="" Default="" Extra="" />
<field Field="CountryCode" Type="char(3)" Null="NO" Key="" Default="" Extra="" />
<field Field="District" Type="char(20)" Null="NO" Key="" Default="" Extra="" />
<field Field="Population" Type="int(11)" Null="NO" Key="" Default="0" Extra="" />
<key Table="City" Non_unique="0" Key_name="PRIMARY" Seq_in_index="1" Column_name="ID"
Collation="A" Cardinality="4079" Null="" Index_type="BTREE" Comment="" />
<options Name="City" Engine="MyISAM" Version="10" Row_format="Fixed" Rows="4079"
Avg_row_length="67" Data_length="273293" Max_data_length="18858823439613951"
Index_length="43008" Data_free="0" Auto_increment="4080"
Create_time="2007-03-31 01:47:01" Update_time="2007-03-31 01:47:02"
Collation="latin1_swedish_ci" Create_options="" Comment="" />
</table_structure>
<table_data name="City">
<row>
<field name="ID">1</field>
<field name="Name">Kabul</field>
<field name="CountryCode">AFG</field>
<field name="District">Kabol</field>
<field name="Population">1780000</field>
</row>
...
<row>
<field name="ID">4079</field>
<field name="Name">Rafah</field>
<field name="CountryCode">PSE</field>
<field name="District">Rafah</field>
<field name="Population">92020</field>
</row>
</table_data>
</database>
</mysqldump>
Filtering Options
The following options control which kinds of schema objects are written to the dump file:
by category, such as triggers or events; by name, for example, choosing which databases
and tables to dump; or even filtering rows from the table data using a WHERE clause.
• --all-databases, -A
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --all-databases │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
Dump all tables in all databases. This is the same as using the --databases option and
naming all the databases on the command line.
Note
See the --add-drop-database description for information about an incompatibility
of that option with --all-databases.
Prior to MySQL 8.0, the --routines and --events options for mysqldump and mysqlpump
were not required to include stored routines and events when using the --all-databases
option: The dump included the mysql system database, and therefore also the mysql.proc
and mysql.event tables containing stored routine and event definitions. As of MySQL
8.0, the mysql.event and mysql.proc tables are not used. Definitions for the
corresponding objects are stored in data dictionary tables, but those tables are not
dumped. To include stored routines and events in a dump made using --all-databases,
use the --routines and --events options explicitly.
• --databases, -B
┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --databases │
└────────────────────┴─────────────┘
Dump several databases. Normally, mysqldump treats the first name argument on the
command line as a database name and following names as table names. With this option,
it treats all name arguments as database names. CREATE DATABASE and USE statements
are included in the output before each new database.
This option may be used to dump the performance_schema database, which normally is not
dumped even with the --all-databases option. (Also use the --skip-lock-tables option.)
Note
See the --add-drop-database description for information about an incompatibility
of that option with --databases.
• --events, -E
┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --events │
└────────────────────┴──────────┘
Include Event Scheduler events for the dumped databases in the output. This option
requires the EVENT privileges for those databases.
The output generated by using --events contains CREATE EVENT statements to create the
events.
• --ignore-error=error[,error]...
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --ignore-error=error[,error]... │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
Ignore the specified errors. The option value is a list of comma-separated error
numbers specifying the errors to ignore during mysqldump execution. If the --force
option is also given to ignore all errors, --force takes precedence.
• --ignore-table=db_name.tbl_name
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --ignore-table=db_name.tbl_name │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ String │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
Do not dump the given table, which must be specified using both the database and table
names. To ignore multiple tables, use this option multiple times. This option also can
be used to ignore views.
• --no-data, -d
┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --no-data │
└────────────────────┴───────────┘
Do not write any table row information (that is, do not dump table contents). This is
useful if you want to dump only the CREATE TABLE statement for the table (for example,
to create an empty copy of the table by loading the dump file).
• --routines, -R
┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --routines │
└────────────────────┴────────────┘
Include stored routines (procedures and functions) for the dumped databases in the
output. This option requires the global SELECT privilege.
The output generated by using --routines contains CREATE PROCEDURE and CREATE FUNCTION
statements to create the routines.
• --skip-generated-invisible-primary-key
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --skip-generated-invisible- │
│ │ primary-key │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.30 │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ FALSE │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
This option is available beginning with MySQL 8.0.30, and causes generated invisible
primary keys to be excluded from the output. For more information, see
Section 15.1.20.11, “Generated Invisible Primary Keys”.
• --tables
┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --tables │
└────────────────────┴──────────┘
Override the --databases or -B option. mysqldump regards all name arguments following
the option as table names.
• --triggers
┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --triggers │
├────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│Disabled by │ skip-triggers │
└────────────────────┴───────────────┘
Include triggers for each dumped table in the output. This option is enabled by
default; disable it with --skip-triggers.
To be able to dump a table's triggers, you must have the TRIGGER privilege for the
table.
Multiple triggers are permitted. mysqldump dumps triggers in activation order so that
when the dump file is reloaded, triggers are created in the same activation order.
However, if a mysqldump dump file contains multiple triggers for a table that have the
same trigger event and action time, an error occurs for attempts to load the dump file
into an older server that does not support multiple triggers. (For a workaround, see
Downgrade Notes[4]; you can convert triggers to be compatible with older servers.)
• --where='where_condition', -w 'where_condition'
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --where='where_condition' │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
Dump only rows selected by the given WHERE condition. Quotes around the condition are
mandatory if it contains spaces or other characters that are special to your command
interpreter.
Examples:
--where="user='jimf'"
-w"userid>1"
-w"userid<1"
Performance Options
The following options are the most relevant for the performance particularly of the
restore operations. For large data sets, restore operation (processing the INSERT
statements in the dump file) is the most time-consuming part. When it is urgent to restore
data quickly, plan and test the performance of this stage in advance. For restore times
measured in hours, you might prefer an alternative backup and restore solution, such as
MySQL Enterprise Backup for InnoDB-only and mixed-use databases.
Performance is also affected by the transactional options, primarily for the dump
operation.
• --column-statistics
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --column-statistics │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ OFF │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
Add ANALYZE TABLE statements to the output to generate histogram statistics for dumped
tables when the dump file is reloaded. This option is disabled by default because
histogram generation for large tables can take a long time.
• --disable-keys, -K
┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --disable-keys │
└────────────────────┴────────────────┘
For each table, surround the INSERT statements with /*!40000 ALTER TABLE tbl_name
DISABLE KEYS */; and /*!40000 ALTER TABLE tbl_name ENABLE KEYS */; statements. This
makes loading the dump file faster because the indexes are created after all rows are
inserted. This option is effective only for nonunique indexes of MyISAM tables.
• --extended-insert, -e
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --extended-insert │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│Disabled by │ skip-extended-insert │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
Write INSERT statements using multiple-row syntax that includes several VALUES lists.
This results in a smaller dump file and speeds up inserts when the file is reloaded.
• --insert-ignore
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --insert-ignore │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
Write INSERT IGNORE statements rather than INSERT statements.
• --max-allowed-packet=value
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --max-allowed-packet=value │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Numeric │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ 25165824 │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
The maximum size of the buffer for client/server communication. The default is 24MB,
the maximum is 1GB.
Note
The value of this option is specific to mysqldump and should not be confused with
the MySQL server's max_allowed_packet system variable; the server value cannot be
exceeded by a single packet from mysqldump, regardless of any setting for the
mysqldump option, even if the latter is larger.
• --mysqld-long-query-time=value
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --mysqld-long-query-time=value │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Introduced │ 8.0.30 │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Numeric │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ Server global setting │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
Set the session value of the long_query_time system variable. Use this option, which
is available from MySQL 8.0.30, if you want to increase the time allowed for queries
from mysqldump before they are logged to the slow query log file. mysqldump performs
a full table scan, which means its queries can often exceed a global long_query_time
setting that is useful for regular queries. The default global setting is 10 seconds.
You can use --mysqld-long-query-time to specify a session value from 0 (meaning that
every query from mysqldump is logged to the slow query log) to 31536000, which is 365
days in seconds. For mysqldump’s option, you can only specify whole seconds. When you
do not specify this option, the server’s global setting applies to mysqldump’s
queries.
• --net-buffer-length=value
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --net-buffer-length=value │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Numeric │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ 16384 │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
The initial size of the buffer for client/server communication. When creating
multiple-row INSERT statements (as with the --extended-insert or --opt option),
mysqldump creates rows up to --net-buffer-length bytes long. If you increase this
variable, ensure that the MySQL server net_buffer_length system variable has a value
at least this large.
• --network-timeout, -M
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --network-timeout[={0|1}] │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│Type │ Boolean │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│Default Value │ TRUE │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
Enable large tables to be dumped by setting --max-allowed-packet to its maximum value
and network read and write timeouts to a large value. This option is enabled by
default. To disable it, use --skip-network-timeout.
• --opt
┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --opt │
├────────────────────┼──────────┤
│Disabled by │ skip-opt │
└────────────────────┴──────────┘
This option, enabled by default, is shorthand for the combination of --add-drop-table
--add-locks --create-options --disable-keys --extended-insert --lock-tables --quick
--set-charset. It gives a fast dump operation and produces a dump file that can be
reloaded into a MySQL server quickly.
Because the --opt option is enabled by default, you only specify its converse, the
--skip-opt to turn off several default settings. See the discussion of mysqldump
option groups for information about selectively enabling or disabling a subset of the
options affected by --opt.
• --quick, -q
┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --quick │
├────────────────────┼────────────┤
│Disabled by │ skip-quick │
└────────────────────┴────────────┘
This option is useful for dumping large tables. It forces mysqldump to retrieve rows
for a table from the server a row at a time rather than retrieving the entire row set
and buffering it in memory before writing it out.
• --skip-opt
┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --skip-opt │
└────────────────────┴────────────┘
See the description for the --opt option.
Transactional Options
The following options trade off the performance of the dump operation, against the
reliability and consistency of the exported data.
• --add-locks
┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --add-locks │
└────────────────────┴─────────────┘
Surround each table dump with LOCK TABLES and UNLOCK TABLES statements. This results
in faster inserts when the dump file is reloaded. See Section 10.2.5.1, “Optimizing
INSERT Statements”.
• --flush-logs, -F
┌────────────────────┬──────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --flush-logs │
└────────────────────┴──────────────┘
Flush the MySQL server log files before starting the dump. This option requires the
RELOAD privilege. If you use this option in combination with the --all-databases
option, the logs are flushed for each database dumped. The exception is when using
--lock-all-tables, --source-data or --master-data, or --single-transaction. In these
cases, the logs are flushed only once, corresponding to the moment that all tables are
locked by FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK. If you want your dump and the log flush to
happen at exactly the same moment, you should use --flush-logs together with
--lock-all-tables, --source-data or --master-data, or --single-transaction.
• --flush-privileges
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --flush-privileges │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
Add a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement to the dump output after dumping the mysql database.
This option should be used any time the dump contains the mysql database and any other
database that depends on the data in the mysql database for proper restoration.
Because the dump file contains a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement, reloading the file
requires privileges sufficient to execute that statement.
Note
For upgrades to MySQL 5.7 or higher from older versions, do not use
--flush-privileges. For upgrade instructions in this case, see Section 3.5,
“Changes in MySQL 8.0”.
• --lock-all-tables, -x
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --lock-all-tables │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
Lock all tables across all databases. This is achieved by acquiring a global read lock
for the duration of the whole dump. This option automatically turns off
--single-transaction and --lock-tables.
• --lock-tables, -l
┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --lock-tables │
└────────────────────┴───────────────┘
For each dumped database, lock all tables to be dumped before dumping them. The tables
are locked with READ LOCAL to permit concurrent inserts in the case of MyISAM tables.
For transactional tables such as InnoDB, --single-transaction is a much better option
than --lock-tables because it does not need to lock the tables at all.
Because --lock-tables locks tables for each database separately, this option does not
guarantee that the tables in the dump file are logically consistent between databases.
Tables in different databases may be dumped in completely different states.
Some options, such as --opt, automatically enable --lock-tables. If you want to
override this, use --skip-lock-tables at the end of the option list.
• --no-autocommit
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --no-autocommit │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
Enclose the INSERT statements for each dumped table within SET autocommit = 0 and
COMMIT statements.
• --order-by-primary
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --order-by-primary │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
Dump each table's rows sorted by its primary key, or by its first unique index, if
such an index exists. This is useful when dumping a MyISAM table to be loaded into an
InnoDB table, but makes the dump operation take considerably longer.
• --shared-memory-base-name=name
┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --shared-memory-base-name=name │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Platform Specific │ Windows │
└────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
On Windows, the shared-memory name to use for connections made using shared memory to
a local server. The default value is MYSQL. The shared-memory name is case-sensitive.
This option applies only if the server was started with the shared_memory system
variable enabled to support shared-memory connections.
• --single-transaction
┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│Command-Line Format │ --single-transaction │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
This option sets the transaction isolation mode to REPEATABLE READ and sends a START
TRANSACTION SQL statement to the server before dumping data. It is useful only with
transactional tables such as InnoDB, because then it dumps the consistent state of the
database at the time when START TRANSACTION was issued without blocking any
applications.
The RELOAD or FLUSH_TABLES privilege is required with --single-transaction if both
gtid_mode=ON and gtid_purged=ON|AUTO. This requirement was added in MySQL 8.0.32.
When using this option, you should keep in mind that only InnoDB tables are dumped in
a consistent state. For example, any MyISAM or MEMORY tables dumped while using this
option may still change state.
While a --single-transaction dump is in process, to ensure a valid dump file (correct
table contents and binary log coordinates), no other connection should use the
following statements: ALTER TABLE, CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE, TRUNCATE
TABLE. A consistent read is not isolated from those statements, so use of them on a
table to be dumped can cause the SELECT that is performed by mysqldump to retrieve the
table contents to obtain incorrect contents or fail.
The --single-transaction option and the --lock-tables option are mutually exclusive
because LOCK TABLES causes any pending transactions to be committed implicitly.
Before 8.0.32: Using --single-transaction together with the --set-gtid-purged option
was not recommended; doing so could lead to inconsistencies in the output of
mysqldump.
To dump large tables, combine the --single-transaction option with the --quick option.
Option Groups
• The --opt option turns on several settings that work together to perform a fast dump
operation. All of these settings are on by default, because --opt is on by default.
Thus you rarely if ever specify --opt. Instead, you can turn these settings off as a
group by specifying --skip-opt, then optionally re-enable certain settings by
specifying the associated options later on the command line.
• The --compact option turns off several settings that control whether optional
statements and comments appear in the output. Again, you can follow this option with
other options that re-enable certain settings, or turn all the settings on by using
the --skip-compact form.
When you selectively enable or disable the effect of a group option, order is important
because options are processed first to last. For example, --disable-keys --lock-tables
--skip-opt would not have the intended effect; it is the same as --skip-opt by itself.
Examples
To make a backup of an entire database:
mysqldump db_name > backup-file.sql
To load the dump file back into the server:
mysql db_name < backup-file.sql
Another way to reload the dump file:
mysql -e "source /path-to-backup/backup-file.sql" db_name
mysqldump is also very useful for populating databases by copying data from one MySQL
server to another:
mysqldump --opt db_name | mysql --host=remote_host -C db_name
You can dump several databases with one command:
mysqldump --databases db_name1 [db_name2 ...] > my_databases.sql
To dump all databases, use the --all-databases option:
mysqldump --all-databases > all_databases.sql
For InnoDB tables, mysqldump provides a way of making an online backup:
mysqldump --all-databases --master-data --single-transaction > all_databases.sql
Or, in MySQL 8.0.26 and later:
mysqldump --all-databases --source-data --single-transaction > all_databases.sql
This backup acquires a global read lock on all tables (using FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK)
at the beginning of the dump. As soon as this lock has been acquired, the binary log
coordinates are read and the lock is released. If long updating statements are running
when the FLUSH statement is issued, the MySQL server may get stalled until those
statements finish. After that, the dump becomes lock free and does not disturb reads and
writes on the tables. If the update statements that the MySQL server receives are short
(in terms of execution time), the initial lock period should not be noticeable, even with
many updates.
For point-in-time recovery (also known as “roll-forward,” when you need to restore an old
backup and replay the changes that happened since that backup), it is often useful to
rotate the binary log (see Section 7.4.4, “The Binary Log”) or at least know the binary
log coordinates to which the dump corresponds:
mysqldump --all-databases --master-data=2 > all_databases.sql
Or, in MySQL 8.0.26 and later:
mysqldump --all-databases --source-data=2 > all_databases.sql
Or:
mysqldump --all-databases --flush-logs --master-data=2 > all_databases.sql
Or, in MySQL 8.0.26 and later:
mysqldump --all-databases --flush-logs --source-data=2 > all_databases.sql
The --source-data or --master-data option can be used simultaneously with the
--single-transaction option, which provides a convenient way to make an online backup
suitable for use prior to point-in-time recovery if tables are stored using the InnoDB
storage engine.
For more information on making backups, see Section 9.2, “Database Backup Methods”, and
Section 9.3, “Example Backup and Recovery Strategy”.
• To select the effect of --opt except for some features, use the --skip option for each
feature. To disable extended inserts and memory buffering, use --opt
--skip-extended-insert --skip-quick. (Actually, --skip-extended-insert --skip-quick is
sufficient because --opt is on by default.)
• To reverse --opt for all features except disabling of indexes and table locking, use
--skip-opt --disable-keys --lock-tables.
Restrictions
mysqldump does not dump the performance_schema or sys schema by default. To dump any of
these, name them explicitly on the command line. You can also name them with the
--databases option. For performance_schema, also use the --skip-lock-tables option.
mysqldump does not dump the INFORMATION_SCHEMA schema.
mysqldump does not dump InnoDB CREATE TABLESPACE statements.
mysqldump does not dump the NDB Cluster ndbinfo information database.
mysqldump includes statements to recreate the general_log and slow_query_log tables for
dumps of the mysql database. Log table contents are not dumped.
If you encounter problems backing up views due to insufficient privileges, see
Section 27.9, “Restrictions on Views” for a workaround.
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NOTES
1. MySQL Shell dump utilities
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-utilities-dump-instance-schema.html
2. MySQL Shell load dump utilities
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-utilities-load-dump.html
3. here
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-install.html
4. Downgrade Notes
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/downgrading-to-previous-series.html
SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be
installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).