Wang Zi Feng wrote:
Hi everyone,
Here is a rookie question.
The problem what I found is that mysqldump and phpmyadmin generate different
size of backup file against same database.
I try to dump same database with the 2 different methods, the original
database is 2.8mb, phpmyadmin export 1.5mb file, and mysqldump export only
941kb file.
mysqldump has a number of different settings, and the file size will
vary according to which you use. For example, using extended insert
syntax will significantly increase the size of the output, and that
could easily account for the difference between your two files.
What's probably happening is that the settings you're using when running
mysqldump from the command line are different to those used by
phpMyAdmin, so you end up with differently formatted files.
I know there must be some difference between the two export method, but
after I import the 941kb file which mysqldump created into a new database,
it just works fine.
So I'm not sure if I can use mysqldump as the best option to do mysql
backup, can someone can help me to figure out why phpmyadmin would generate
twice big file? And I see some post that address it is not recommend to
import mysqldump file by using phpmyadmin, because it will cause problem.
Importing any large file via phpMyAdmin is likely to have problems, as
you'll find yourself limited by the maximum upload file size of the web
server where phpMyAdmin is running (that's typically 2Mb for PHP on
Apache, although the administrators can change that). But the source of
the file is irrelevant; so long as it's within the file upload limit
then it doesn't matter whether it was exported by phpMyAdmin itself or
created using mysqldump from the command line.
Mark
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