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Commands to backup and restore database from/to docker container
# Backup
docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root DATABASE > backup.sql
# Restore
cat backup.sql | docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE
# Backup to gzip
pg_dump db_name | gzip > dump_name.sql.gz
# Restore from gzip
zcat dump_name.sql.gz | docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE
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