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Asked: 2026-06-01T19:37:37+00:00

I’m using putty to connect to my MySQL server. I’ve a backup .sql file

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I’m using putty to connect to my MySQL server.

I’ve a backup .sql file from which I want to create the tables on the server.

According to the link here restore backup mysql, I’m trying to perform this command

mysql -u username -p -h hostname databasename < dumpfile.sql

Now my question is,

  1. What is the ‘hostname’ here? Is it ‘Localhost’?
  2. How do I find the correct path to my dumpfile.sql file on the server which I have uploaded. Say for instance I’ve uploaded inside www/apache/appname/?
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are logged on to the machine where MySQL is running, hostname is indeed localhost (but if you leave it out, localhost is assumed). For the path to dumpfile.sql you can just provide the full path including all folders. Your question shows a relative path www/apache/appname/. I assume that you meant that to be an absolute path starting from /. If that’s the case, the whole command would be 

    mysql -u username -p -h localhost databasename < /www/apache/appname/dumpfile.sql
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