Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

The restore command will take considerably longer than the backup command, so please make sure to give it time. And that's all there is to backing up and restoring a database for your website.

Restoring from a MySQL dump is simple: you just pipe its contents into the mysql command itself, again using an account with appropriate permissions. Here's a full example of backup and restore of ...

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.