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Restore logical database backups

Restore logical database backups

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Restore logical database backups

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- [Instructor] In the last video we created a couple of logical database backup files in our home directory. We can verify their existence by typing in ls, space, dash, one, space, tilde, slash, asterisk, dot, sql. Hit enter. Now let's use these files to restore our database. First let's log in to MariaDB's (mumbles) MySQl interactive tool. Type is mysql, space, dash, u, space, root, space, dash, p and hit enter and enter your database password. Let's get a list of databases by typing in show, space, databases, semicolon. We can see our Linux devs database, which we backed up in a previous video. Let's drop this database using the drop command. Type in drop, space, database, space, linuxdevs, semicolon and hit enter and we'll verify with show, space, databases, semicolon. Now that we see it's gone let's exit and restore the Linux devs database from our backup. Type in exit. Now type in clear to clear your screen. Now we use a MySQL command in a noninteractive way to restore the…

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