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When I need to replicate my database from one machine to another I usually do
mysqldump -u root -ppassword database > backup.sql
then on the other machine
mysql -u root -ppassword databsae < backup.sql
However I am right now dealing with a 1 GB sql file and it is taking hours! are there any other ways to do this?
Unfortunately, too many variables are missing from the question. Are the db datadir and the file on the same disk mount? Is the dump using an extended insert? (assuming no)
If a textual dump is the only solution (meaning you don’t wanna use xtrabackup or an LVM snapshot) then you want to make you musqldump use extended insert (so one insert for each whole table, faster) and try to have the file on a separate mount from the data directory to reduce disk seeks. For that point on, it’s all IO bound and the disk speed is your bottleneck.