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Backup and restore a mysql database from a running Docker mysql container
# Decompress xz sql file
xz -d -v FILENAME
# 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
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