dump all mysql tables into separate files automagically?

Question

I\'d like to get dumps of each mysql table into separate files. The manual indicates that the syntax for this is

mysqldump [options] db_name [tbl_name ...]
         


        

Answer 1

I'm not bash master, but I'd just do it with a bash script. Without hitting MySQL, with knowledge of the data directory and database name, you could just scan for all .frm files (one for every table in that db/directory) for a list of tables.

I'm sure there are ways to make it slicker and accept arguments or whatnot, but this worked well for me.

tables_in_a_db_to_sql.sh

#!/bin/bash

database="this_is_my_database"
datadir="/var/lib/mysql/"
datadir_escaped="\/var\/lib\/mysql\/"

all_tables=($(ls $datadir$database/*.frm | sed s/"$datadir_escaped$database\/"/""/g | sed s/.frm//g))

for t in "${all_tables[@]}"; do
        outfile=$database.$t.sql
        echo "-- backing up $t to $outfile"
        echo "mysqldump [options] $database $t > $outfile"
        # mysqldump [options] $database $t > $outfile
done

Fill in the [options] and desired outfile convention as you need, and uncomment the last mysqldump line.