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Export and re-import a database with Drush and the command line

These are run from the project's web root, example/web, so that drush can run, but the database itself is stored outside the web root, example/db.

On the export side:

drush sql-dump > ../db/development.sql

On the import side:

drush sql-connect < ../db/development.sql

expands to:

mysql -hlocalhost -uexample -pyMsx2rIP drupal-example < ../db/development.sql

(Agaric internal note: For getting database from a site on a server, Agaric's rake command rake test vlad:commit and rake prod vlad:commit handle this (as well as committing files). Stefan, who created this system, would like to move away from including the database and files in the project version control repository.)

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forget the fancy back-tick quotes, use drush sqlc

Good post. Instead of using the ` backticks around sql-connect, with the latest drush, you can use drush sqlc < ../db/file.sql and avoid having to pipe into a command execution.

I don't know any express advantage, but it at least looks cleaner :)

drush sql-sync

do you folks know the drush sql-sync command?
using aliases (and ssh), it dumps and syncs dbs across installations.
take a good look at it http://drush.ws/#sql-sync

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