How to take backup of a single table in a MySQL database

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By default  mysqldump takes the backup of an entire database  I need to backup a single table in MySQL  Is it possible  How do I restore it

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Dump and restore a single table from  sql  Dump  mysqldump db name table name  gt  table name sql   Dumping from a remote database  mysqldump -u  lt db username gt  -h  lt db host gt  -p db name table name  gt  table name sql   For further reference    http   www abbeyworkshop com howto lamp MySQL Export Backup index html  Restore  mysql -u  lt user name gt  -p db name mysql gt  source  lt full path gt  table name sql   or in one line  mysql -u username -p db name  lt   path to table name sql    Dump and restore a single table from a compressed   sql gz  format  Credit  John McGrath   Dump  mysqldump db name table name   gzip  gt  table name sql gz   Restore  gunzip  lt  table name sql gz   mysql -u username -p db name

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just use  mysqldump -u root database table or if using with password  mysqldump -u root -p pass database table

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You can use the below code    For Single Table Structure alone Backup   -  mysqldump -d  lt database name gt   lt tablename gt   gt   lt filename sql gt     For Single Table Structure with data   -  mysqldump  lt database name gt   lt tablename gt   gt   lt filename sql gt    Hope it will help

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You can either use mysqldump from the command line   mysqldump -u username -p password dbname tablename  gt   path where you want to dump   You can also use MySQL Workbench   Go to left   Data Export   Select Schema   Select tables and click on Export

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mysqldump can take a tbl name parameter  so that it only backups the given tables   mysqldump -u -p yourdb yourtable  gt  c  backups backup sql

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We can take a mysql dump of any particular table with any given condition like below  mysqldump -uusername -p -hhost databasename tablename --skip-lock-tables   If we want to add a specific where condition on table then we can use the following command  mysqldump -uusername -p -hhost databasename tablename --where  date 20140501  --skip-lock-tables

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try  for line in   mysql -u    -p    -AN -e  show tables from NameDataBase    do  mysqldump -u    -p     NameDataBase  line  gt   line sql    done     line cotent names tables

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You can use easily to dump selected tables using MYSQLWorkbench tool  individually or group of tables at one dump then import it as follow  also u can add host information if u are running it in your local by adding -h IP ADDRESS NUMBER after-u username  mysql -u root -p databasename  lt  dumpfileFOurTableInOneDump sql

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You can use this code   This example takes a backup of sugarcrm database and dumps the output to sugarcrm sql    mysqldump -u root -ptmppassword sugarcrm  gt  sugarcrm sql    mysqldump -u root -p root password   database name   gt  dumpfilename sql   The sugarcrm sql will contain drop table  create table and insert command for all the tables in the sugarcrm database  Following is a partial output of sugarcrm sql  showing the dump information of accounts contacts table   --  -- Table structure for table accounts contacts  DROP TABLE IF EXISTS  accounts contacts   SET  saved cs client     character set client  SET character set client   utf8  CREATE TABLE  accounts contacts     id  varchar 36  NOT NULL   contact id  varchar 36  default NULL   account id  varchar 36  default NULL   date modified  datetime default NULL   deleted  tinyint 1  NOT NULL default  0   PRIMARY KEY   id    KEY  idx account contact    account id   contact id    KEY  idx contid del accid    contact id   deleted   account id     ENGINE MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET utf8  SET character set client    saved cs client   --

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