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Created December 22, 2015 13:47
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Backup and restore a mysql database from a running Docker mysql container
# Backup
docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root DATABASE > backup.sql
# Restore
cat backup.sql | docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE
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✅ Correct command:

docker exec zabbix-docker-62_zabbix-server_1 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=secret -S /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock zabbix > ~/zabbix.dump

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