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Can I restore a single table from a full mysql mysqldump file?

Anyone know if you can import a specific table from a full MySQL dump? My client requests that his database is dumped every hour and we keep the SQL hourly backups of the past 3 days or so just incase.

EDIT: MySQL running on Windows Server

Answer 1

I am guessing that you are dumping the entire database for recovery purposes if the entire system fails, so you want to keep doing that.

However, it won’t take much additional time to also dump the individual file after you’ve dumped the entire database. Just write a second mysqldump command of the form

mysqldump -u xxx -pxxx database_name table_name >
database.table.yyyymmdd.sql

and you’ll have your table in a file by itself anytime you need it.