I'm currently using Drupal 5.1 with mysql-server-4.1.20.

I did a backup of the database using mysqldump and using the script locate at http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/drupal/contributions/sandbox/dr...

When doing the restore I get the following message and the dabase doesn't get restored.

How should I restore this database?

[root@localhost backup]# mysqldump -u root -p drupal51 < backup.sql
Enter password:
-- MySQL dump 10.9
--
-- Host: localhost Database: drupal51
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version 4.1.20

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

/*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;
/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;
/*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;

Comments

yelvington’s picture

mysqldump is for dumping data, not for restoring.

feed the .sql file to the mysql client instead -- just remove "dump" from your command line.

Keith2005’s picture

That's right mysqldump is for backing up and mysql is used when restoring, for example you should be using something like... mysql -u root -p -D drupal51 < backup.sql