Extracting a Database From a mysqldump File

Gary Pendergast — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:31:55 +0000

Restoring a single database from a full dump is pretty easy, using the mysql command line client’s --one-database option:

mysql> mysql -u root -p --one-database db_to_restore < fulldump.sql

But what if you don’t want to restore the database, you just want to extract it out of the dump file? Well, that happens to be easy as well, thanks to the magic of sed:

shell> sed -n '/^-- Current Database: `test`/,/^-- Current Database: `/p' fulldump.sql > test.sql

You just need to change “test” to be the name of the database you want extracted.

Backing up permissions for individual databases

Gary Pendergast — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:00:38 +0000

Sometimes, you want to backup individual databases in MySQL to move to a different server. This part is easy using mysqldump:

shell> mysqldump -u root -p --databases db1 db2 ... > backup.sql

The problem is, what happens when you want to backup the permissions associated with these databases? Well, here are a few queries to help you out.

-- Grab the users with global permissions, 
-- with permissions to the databases you want, 
-- and tables/stored procedures in it.
mysql> SELECT u.* INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/user.txt'
	FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\'
	LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
	FROM
		mysql.user u
	WHERE
		u.Select_priv='Y'
	UNION
	SELECT u.*
	FROM
		mysql.user u,
		mysql.db d
	WHERE
		d.Db IN('db1', 'db2', ...) AND
		d.User = u.user
	UNION
	SELECT u.*
	FROM
		mysql.user u,
		mysql.tables_priv t
	WHERE
		t.Db IN('db1', 'db2', ...) AND
		t.User = u.User
	UNION
	SELECT u.*
	FROM
		mysql.user u,
		mysql.procs_priv p
	WHERE
		p.Db IN('db1', 'db2', ...) AND
		p.User = u.User;
 
-- Now, grab the database permissions, and those of objects in the database.
mysql> SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/db.txt'
	FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\'
	LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
	FROM
		mysql.db
	WHERE
		Db IN('db1', 'db2', ...);
mysql> SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/tables_priv.txt'
	FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\'
	LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
	FROM
		mysql.tables_priv
	WHERE
		Db IN('db1', 'db2', ...);
mysql> SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/procs_priv.txt'
	FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\'
	LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
	FROM
		mysql.procs_priv
	WHERE
		Db IN('db1', 'db2', ...);

Then, re-loading the permissions onto the new server is simple:

mysql> LOAD DATA INFILE '/tmp/user.txt'
	FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\'
	LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
	INTO TABLE mysql.user;
mysql> LOAD DATA INFILE '/tmp/db.txt'
	FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\'
	LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
	INTO TABLE mysql.db;
mysql> LOAD DATA INFILE '/tmp/tables_priv.txt'
	FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\'
	LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
	INTO TABLE mysql.tables_priv;
mysql> LOAD DATA INFILE '/tmp/procs_priv.txt'
	FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\'
	LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
	INTO TABLE mysql.procs_priv;

All up, a few queries to account for everything, but pretty easy to include in your backup/restore process. For further development, you could put the database list in a variable, so that you only need to change it on one line, rather than 6.

Gary Pendergast » mysqldump

Extracting a Database From a mysqldump File

Backing up permissions for individual databases