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Backing up users and privileges in MySQL

14 Monday May 2018

Posted by Moll in Backup and Recovery, MySQL, MySQL Operations

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Abdel-Mawla Gharieb, backup, MySQL, mysqlpump, pt-show-grants

There are two simple ways to backup only the users and privileges in MySQL:

1- Using mysqlpump utility (as create user and grant statements):

[shell ~]$ mysqlpump -uUSER -p --exclude-databases=% --add-drop-user --users > /tmp/pump-all-users_privileges-timestamp.sql
Dump completed in 1364 milliseconds

Sample output:

[shell ~]$ head /tmp/pump-all-users_privileges-timestamp.sql
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