Is there a way to restrict certain tables from the mysqldump command?

For example, I'd use the following syntax to dump only table1 and table2:

mysqldump -u username -p database table1 table2 > database.sql

But is there a similar way to dump all the tables except table1 and table2? I haven't found anything in the mysqldump documentation, so is brute-force (specifying all the table names) the only way to go?

Paul Sheldrake

You can use the --ignore-table option. So you could do

mysqldump -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE --ignore-table=DATABASE.table1 > database.sql

There is no whitespace after -p (this is not a typo).

If you want to ignore multiple tables you can use a simple script like this

#!/bin/bash
PASSWORD=XXXXXX
HOST=XXXXXX
USER=XXXXXX
DATABASE=databasename
DB_FILE=dump.sql
EXCLUDED_TABLES=(
table1
table2
table3
table4
tableN   
)

IGNORED_TABLES_STRING=''
for TABLE in "${EXCLUDED_TABLES[@]}"
do :
   IGNORED_TABLES_STRING+=" --ignore-table=${DATABASE}.${TABLE}"
done

echo "Dump structure"
mysqldump --host=${HOST} --user=${USER} --password=${PASSWORD} --single-transaction --no-data --routines ${DATABASE} > ${DB_FILE}

echo "Dump content"
mysqldump --host=${HOST} --user=${USER} --password=${PASSWORD} ${DATABASE} --no-create-info --skip-triggers ${IGNORED_TABLES_STRING} >> ${DB_FILE}

DuffJ

Building on the answer from @Brian-Fisher and answering the comments of some of the people on this post, I have a bunch of huge (and unnecessary) tables in my database so I wanted to skip their contents when copying, but keep the structure:

mysqldump -h <host> -u <username> -p <schema> --no-data > db-structure.sql
mysqldump -h <host> -u <username> -p <schema> --no-create-info --ignore-table=schema.table1 --ignore-table=schema.table2 > db-data.sql

The resulting two files are structurally sound but the dumped data is now ~500MB rather than 9GB, much better for me. I can now import these two files into another database for testing purposes without having to worry about manipulating 9GB of data or running out of disk space.

user1219736

for multiple databases:

mysqldump -u user -p --ignore-table=db1.tbl1 --ignore-table=db2.tbl1 --databases db1 db2 ..

DarckBlezzer

Another example for ignoring multiple tables

/usr/bin/mysqldump -uUSER -pPASS --ignore-table={db_test.test1,db_test.test3} db_test> db_test.sql

using --ignore-table and create an array of tables, with syntaxs like database.table

--ignore-table={db_test.table1,db_test.table3,db_test.table4}

Links with information that will help you

compress output mysqldump

Note: tested in ubuntu server with mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.55

Import database

 mysql -uUSER  -pPASS db_test < db_test.sql

Simple script to ignore tables

#!/bin/bash

#tables to ignore
_TIGNORE=(
my_database.table1
my_database.table2
my_database.tablex
)

#create text for ignore tables
_TDELIMITED="$(IFS=" "; echo "${_TIGNORE[*]/#/--ignore-table=}")"

#don't forget to include user and password
/usr/bin/mysqldump -uUSER -pPASSWORD --events ${_TDELIMITED} --databases my_database | gzip -v > backup_database.sql.gz

To exclude some table data, but not the table structure. Here is how I do it:

Dump the database structure of all tables, without any data:

mysqldump -u user -p --no-data database > database_structure.sql

Then dump the database with data, except the excluded tables, and do not dump the structure:

mysqldump -u user -p --no-create-info \
    --ignore-table=database.table1 \
    --ignore-table=database.table2 database > database_data.sql

Then, to load it into a new database:

mysql -u user -p newdatabase < database_structure.sql
mysql -u user -p newdatabase < database_data.sql

You can use the mysqlpump command with the

--exclude-tables=name

command. It specifies a comma-separated list of tables to exclude.

Syntax of mysqlpump is very similar to mysqldump, buts its way more performant. More information of how to use the exclude option you can read here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysqlpump.html#mysqlpump-filtering

rubo77

Dump all databases with all tables but skip certain tables

on github: https://github.com/rubo77/mysql-backup.sh/blob/master/mysql-backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
# mysql-backup.sh

if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
  echo
  echo "ERROR: root password Parameter missing."
  exit
fi
DB_host=localhost
MYSQL_USER=root
MYSQL_PASS=$1
MYSQL_CONN="-u${MYSQL_USER} -p${MYSQL_PASS}"
#MYSQL_CONN=""

BACKUP_DIR=/backup/mysql/

mkdir $BACKUP_DIR -p

MYSQLPATH=/var/lib/mysql/

IGNORE="database1.table1, database1.table2, database2.table1,"

# strpos $1 $2 [$3]
# strpos haystack needle [optional offset of an input string]
strpos()
{
    local str=${1}
    local offset=${3}
    if [ -n "${offset}" ]; then
        str=`substr "${str}" ${offset}`
    else
        offset=0
    fi
    str=${str/${2}*/}
    if [ "${#str}" -eq "${#1}" ]; then
        return 0
    fi
    echo $((${#str}+${offset}))
}

cd $MYSQLPATH
for i in */; do
    if [ $i != 'performance_schema/' ] ; then 
    DB=`basename "$i"` 
    #echo "backup $DB->$BACKUP_DIR$DB.sql.lzo"
    mysqlcheck "$DB" $MYSQL_CONN --silent --auto-repair >/tmp/tmp_grep_mysql-backup
    grep -E -B1 "note|warning|support|auto_increment|required|locks" /tmp/tmp_grep_mysql-backup>/tmp/tmp_grep_mysql-backup_not
    grep -v "$(cat /tmp/tmp_grep_mysql-backup_not)" /tmp/tmp_grep_mysql-backup

    tbl_count=0
    for t in $(mysql -NBA -h $DB_host $MYSQL_CONN -D $DB -e 'show tables') 
    do
      found=$(strpos "$IGNORE" "$DB"."$t,")
      if [ "$found" == "" ] ; then 
        echo "DUMPING TABLE: $DB.$t"
        mysqldump -h $DB_host $MYSQL_CONN $DB $t --events --skip-lock-tables | lzop -3 -f -o $BACKUP_DIR/$DB.$t.sql.lzo
        tbl_count=$(( tbl_count + 1 ))
      fi
    done
    echo "$tbl_count tables dumped from database '$DB' into dir=$BACKUP_DIR"
    fi
done

With a little help of https://stackoverflow.com/a/17016410/1069083

It uses lzop which is much faster, see:http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip_vs_Bzip2_vs_LZMA_vs_XZ_vs_LZ4_vs_LZO

I like Rubo77's solution, I hadn't seen it before I modified Paul's. This one will backup a single database, excluding any tables you don't want. It will then gzip it, and delete any files over 8 days old. I will probably use 2 versions of this that do a full (minus logs table) once a day, and another that just backs up the most important tables that change the most every hour using a couple cron jobs.

#!/bin/sh
PASSWORD=XXXX
HOST=127.0.0.1
USER=root
DATABASE=MyFavoriteDB

now="$(date +'%d_%m_%Y_%H_%M')"
filename="${DATABASE}_db_backup_$now"
backupfolder="/opt/backups/mysql"
DB_FILE="$backupfolder/$filename"
logfile="$backupfolder/"backup_log_"$(date +'%Y_%m')".txt

EXCLUDED_TABLES=(
logs
)
IGNORED_TABLES_STRING=''
for TABLE in "${EXCLUDED_TABLES[@]}"
do :
   IGNORED_TABLES_STRING+=" --ignore-table=${DATABASE}.${TABLE}"
done

echo "Dump structure started at $(date +'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S')" >> "$logfile"
mysqldump --host=${HOST} --user=${USER} --password=${PASSWORD} --single-transaction --no-data --routines ${DATABASE}  > ${DB_FILE} 
echo "Dump structure finished at $(date +'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S')" >> "$logfile"
echo "Dump content"
mysqldump --host=${HOST} --user=${USER} --password=${PASSWORD} ${DATABASE} --no-create-info --skip-triggers ${IGNORED_TABLES_STRING} >> ${DB_FILE}
gzip ${DB_FILE}

find "$backupfolder" -name ${DATABASE}_db_backup_* -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \;
echo "old files deleted" >> "$logfile"
echo "operation finished at $(date +'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S')" >> "$logfile"
echo "*****************" >> "$logfile"
exit 0

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/425158/skip-certain-tables-with-mysqldump

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