[mysql] Copy mysql database from remote server to local computer

I'm under VPN and I don't have SSH access to remote server.

I can connect to remote database by console

mysql -u username -p -h remote.site.com

Now I'm trying to clone the remote database to local computer

mysqldump -u username -p -h remote.site.com mysqldump | mysql -u root -ppassword webstuff

And I've got error

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'webstaff'@'10.75.1.2' 
(using password: YES) when trying to connect

How to copy mysql database from remote server to local computer?

C:\Users\>mysqldump -u root -p -h ip address --databases database_name -r sql_file.sql
Enter password: your_password

Please check this gist.

https://gist.github.com/ecdundar/789660d830d6d40b6c90

#!/bin/bash

# copymysql.sh

# GENERATED WITH USING ARTUR BODERA S SCRIPT
# Source script at: https://gist.github.com/2215200

MYSQLDUMP="/usr/bin/mysqldump"
MYSQL="/usr/bin/mysql"

REMOTESERVERIP=""
REMOTESERVERUSER=""
REMOTESERVERPASSWORD=""
REMOTECONNECTIONSTR="-h ${REMOTESERVERIP} -u ${REMOTESERVERUSER} --password=${REMOTESERVERPASSWORD} "

LOCALSERVERIP=""
LOCALSERVERUSER=""
LOCALSERVERPASSWORD=""
LOCALCONNECTION="-h ${LOCALSERVERIP} -u ${LOCALSERVERUSER} --password=${LOCALSERVERPASSWORD} "

IGNOREVIEWS=""
MYVIEWS=""
IGNOREDATABASES="select schema_name from information_schema.SCHEMATA where schema_name != 'information_schema' and schema_name != 'mysql' and schema_name != 'performance_schema'  ;"

# GET A LIST OF DATABASES
databases=`$MYSQL $REMOTECONNECTIONSTR -e "${IGNOREDATABASES}" | tr -d "| " | grep -v schema_name`

# COPY ALL TABLES
for db in $databases; do
    # GET LIST OF ITEMS
    views=`$MYSQL $REMOTECONNECTIONSTR --batch -N -e "select table_name from information_schema.tables where table_type='VIEW' and table_schema='$db';"
    IGNOREVIEWS=""
    for view in $views; do
        IGNOREVIEWS=${IGNOREVIEWS}" --ignore-table=$db.$view " 
    done
    echo "TABLES "$db
    $MYSQL $LOCALCONNECTION --batch -N -e "create database $db; "
    $MYSQLDUMP $REMOTECONNECTIONSTR $IGNOREVIEWS --compress --quick --extended-insert  --skip-add-locks --skip-comments --skip-disable-keys --default-character-set=latin1 --skip-triggers --single-transaction  $db | mysql $LOCALCONNECTION  $db 
done

# COPY ALL PROCEDURES
for db in $databases; do
    echo "PROCEDURES "$db
    #PROCEDURES
    $MYSQLDUMP $REMOTECONNECTIONSTR --compress --quick --routines --no-create-info --no-data --no-create-db --skip-opt --skip-triggers $db | \
    sed -r 's/DEFINER=`[^`]+`@`[^`]+`/DEFINER=CURRENT_USER/g' | mysql $LOCALCONNECTION  $db 
done

# COPY ALL TRIGGERS
for db in $databases; do
    echo "TRIGGERS "$db
    #TRIGGERS
    $MYSQLDUMP $REMOTECONNECTIONSTR  --compress --quick --no-create-info --no-data --no-create-db --skip-opt --triggers $db | \
    sed -r 's/DEFINER=`[^`]+`@`[^`]+`/DEFINER=CURRENT_USER/g' | mysql $LOCALCONNECTION  $db 
done

# COPY ALL VIEWS
for db in $databases; do
    # GET LIST OF ITEMS
    views=`$MYSQL $REMOTECONNECTIONSTR --batch -N -e "select table_name from information_schema.tables where table_type='VIEW' and table_schema='$db';"`
    MYVIEWS=""
    for view in $views; do
        MYVIEWS=${MYVIEWS}" "$view" " 
    done
    echo "VIEWS "$db    
    if [ -n "$MYVIEWS" ]; then
      #VIEWS
      $MYSQLDUMP $REMOTECONNECTIONSTR --compress --quick -Q -f --no-data --skip-comments --skip-triggers --skip-opt --no-create-db --complete-insert --add-drop-table $db $MYVIEWS | \
      sed -r 's/DEFINER=`[^`]+`@`[^`]+`/DEFINER=CURRENT_USER/g'  | mysql $LOCALCONNECTION  $db  
    fi    
done

echo   "OK!"

This can have different reasons like:

• You are using an incorrect password
• The MySQL server got an error when trying to resolve the IP address of the client host to a name
• No privileges are granted to the user

You can try one of the following steps:

To reset the password for the remote user by:

SET PASSWORD FOR some_user@ip_addr_of_remote_client=PASSWORD('some_password');

To grant access to the user by:

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, LOCK TABLES ON YourDB.* TO user@Host IDENTIFIED by 'password';

Hope this helps you, if not then you will have to go through the documentation

This answer is not remote server but local server. The logic should be the same. To copy and backup my local machine MAMP database to my local desktop machine folder, go to console then

mysqldump -h YourHostName -u YourUserNameHere -p YourDataBaseNameHere > DestinationPath/xxxwhatever.sql

In my case YourHostName was localhost. DestinationPath is the path to the download; you can drag and drop your desired destination folder and it will paste the path in.

Then password may be asked:

Enter password: xxxxxxxx

Check syntax and execute one command at a time, then verify output.

mysqldump -u remoteusername -p remotepassword -h your.site.com databasename > dump.sql

mysql -u localusername -p localpassword databasename < dump.sql

Once you've matched all passwords, you can use pipe.

Copy mysql database from remote server to local computer

I ran into the same problem. And I could not get it done with the other answers. So here is how I finally did it (yes, a beginner tutorial):

Step 1: Create a new database in your local phpmyadmin.

Step 2: Dump the database on the remote server into a sql file (here I used Putty/SSH):

mysqldump --host="mysql5.domain.com" --user="db231231" --password="DBPASSWORD" databasename > dbdump.sql

Step 3: Download the dbdump.sql file via FTP client (should be located in the root folder)

Step 4: Move the sql file to the folder of your localhost installation, where mysql.exe is located. I am using uniform-server, this would be at C:\uniserver\core\mysql\bin\, with XAMPP it would be C:\xampp\mysql\bin

Step 5: Execute the mysql.exe as follows:

 mysql.exe -u root -pYOURPASSWORD YOURLOCALDBNAME < dbdump.sql

Step 6: Wait... depending on the file size. You can check the progress in phpmyadmin, seeing newly created tables.

Step 7: Done. Go to your local phpmyadmin to check if the database has been filled with the entire data.

Hope that helps. Good luck!

Note 1: When starting the uniformer-server you can specify a password for mysql. This is the one you have to use above for YOURPASSWORD.

Note 2: If the login does not work and you run into password problems, check your password if it contains special characters like !. If so, then you probably need to escape them \!.

Note 3: In case not all mysql data can be found in the local db after the import, it could be that there is a problem with the mysql directives of your dbdump.sql

Better yet use a oneliner:

Dump remoteDB to localDB:

mysqldump -uroot -pMypsw -h remoteHost remoteDB | mysql -u root -pMypsw localDB

Dump localDB to remoteDB:

mysqldump -uroot -pmyPsw localDB | mysql -uroot -pMypsw -h remoteHost remoteDB

Often our databases are really big and the take time to take dump directly from remote machine to other machine as our friends other have suggested above.

In such cases what you can do is to take the dump on remote machine using MYSQLDUMP Command

MYSQLDUMP -uuser -p --all-databases > file_name.sql

and than transfer that file from remote server to your machine using Linux SCP Command

scp user@remote_ip:~/mysql_dump_file_name.sql ./