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Clone a MySQL database to a new database on the same server without using a dump file. This is much faster than using mysqldump.
#!/bin/bash
DBUSER="root";
DBPASS="";
DBHOST="localhost";
DB_OLD=mydatabase
DB_NEW=clone_mydatabase
DBCONN="--host=${DBHOST} --user=${DBUSER} --password=${DBPASS}";
MYSQL_CREATE='set foreign_key_checks = 0';
MYSQL_INSERT='set foreign_key_checks = 0';
echo "Begin database clone (may take a while)";
echo -n "-- Do you want to create destination database? (if exists will be dropped) (y/n)?";
read answer
if echo "$answer" | grep -iq "^y" ;then
DATABASE_COLLATION=$(echo "SELECT @@character_set_database, @@collation_database;" | mysql $DBCONN $DB_OLD | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $2 }');
echo "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS ${DB_NEW}; CREATE DATABASE ${DB_NEW} COLLATE ${DATABASE_COLLATION}" | mysql ${DBCONN};
[ $? -ne 0 ] && exit $?;
fi
echo -e "\n -- Select source table schemas";
MYSQL_TABLES=$(echo "SHOW FULL TABLES WHERE Table_Type = 'BASE TABLE'" | mysql $DBCONN $DB_OLD | tail -n +2 | awk '{ print $1 }');
[ $? -ne 0 ] && exit $?;
COUNT=0
for TABLE in $MYSQL_TABLES; do
echo -n "${TABLE}";
TABLE="\`${TABLE}\`";
MYSQL_INSERT="${MYSQL_INSERT}; ALTER TABLE ${DB_NEW}.${TABLE} DISABLE KEYS";
MYSQL_INSERT="${MYSQL_INSERT}; INSERT INTO ${DB_NEW}.${TABLE} SELECT * FROM ${DB_OLD}.${TABLE}";
MYSQL_INSERT="${MYSQL_INSERT}; ALTER TABLE ${DB_NEW}.${TABLE} ENABLE KEYS";
CREATE_SQL=$(echo "SHOW CREATE TABLE ${TABLE}" | mysql -B -r ${DBCONN} ${DB_OLD} |tail -n +2 | cut -f 2- | sed -e "s/NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00'/NOT NULL/g" | sed -e "s/NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00'/NOT NULL/g");
MYSQL_CREATE="${MYSQL_CREATE}; ${CREATE_SQL}";
[ $? -ne 0 ] && echo && exit $?;
echo -e "\t [ok]";
COUNT=$((COUNT+1))
done;
echo "-- Total ${COUNT} tables will be cloned ..."
MYSQL_CREATE="${MYSQL_CREATE}; set foreign_key_checks = 1";
MYSQL_INSERT="${MYSQL_INSERT}; set foreign_key_checks = 1";
[ $COUNT -gt 1 ] && echo " ]";
echo "-- Create destination table schemas";
echo "${MYSQL_CREATE};" | mysql $DBCONN $DB_NEW
[ $? -ne 0 ] && exit $?;
echo "-- Insert source data into destination tables";
echo "${MYSQL_INSERT};" | mysql $DBCONN $DB_NEW
[ $? -ne 0 ] && exit $?;
echo "Done.";
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