如何从Web服务器到新安装的WAMP获取有效的MySQL数据库

Question

Please be gentle. I'm a newbie and I did search here and in Google for this problem but I can't find anything close. I built a DB on my Web Server and was doing great entering all my records. For the past week the Web Server claims they have been being spammed and I keep getting time outs and page load errors. In my 'brilliance' I thought it would be simple to install WAMP on my computer, get the DB, populate it on my computer and upload it when I was done.

I was able to install the WAMP. However, I have absolutely no clue how to get the DB here, or where to put it or how to get it working in my testing server for Dreamweaver. I tried an export from the Web Server but that only gave me a tiny * .sql file that can't possibly have all the 1700+ records I've already entered.

Can anyone please tell me where there might be instructions how to do this? As I said I've been searching and searching and the best I found was to go from one Web Server to another. But that won't work for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Obtain a mysql dump of your database. Then import it into your new database.

Here are the shell commands.

Run this one on the server with the working database.

$ mysqldump -u *username* -p *password* -h localhost *DB_NAME* > /path/to/output/file.sql

Run this on your machine with WAMP.

$ mysql -u *username* -p *password* -h localhost *DB_NAME* < /path/to/dump/file.sql