====== Backup Database from Remote Server ======
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First you will need to install the MySQL Client Tools:
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sudo apt-get install mysql-client (this will install among other things mysqldump)
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Now you can do the backup, there are a couple of considerations:
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1. Your user must have the rights (normally user accounts are localhost limited) I created a user with global rights '%'
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CREATE USER 'newuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
EG: CREATE USER 'admin'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Once created, the user requires permissions
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'newuser'@'localhost';
If you want to be able to access the server from anywhere, replace localhost with %
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'admin'@'%';
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SUPER IMPORTANT Comment these lines in /etc/mysql/my.cnf\\ <>OR SQL WILL ONLY ACCEPT LOCAL CONNECTIONS
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skip-networking\\
bind-address = 127.0.0.1\\
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2. You must have rights to write to the target directory (easily overlooked)\\
3. The backup might take a few minutes, be prepared to wait.\\
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Now we can execute the following command:
mysqldump --host ipaddress -P port -u user -pPassword databasename > savename.sql
mysqldump --host 10.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u root -pRootPassword gallery > gallery.sql
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