Moving a Database

[]v[est]

Hello everyone,

I recently changed webhosts and I have a site: http://harmless.boggletech.com that i used a webportal system called postnuke to create maybe some of you have heard of it. Anyways its not really relevant here, my question is this site runs on a fairly large database and at my new host i cannot link to the database and i need to move it to my new host. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to do this. I have phpmyadmin avaliable but i find myself stumped when i think how i will get my database for the site to the new host. If anyone could point me in the right direction or give me some advice that would really be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[patch-man]

What I've done in the past is to export from the old system (data and structure). Then import into the new system. Seems to work fine.
Another thing that works is to make a backup of the old mysql database (/var/lib/mysql/<database name>) and restore it to the new location.

I would try these in order, the first is much smoother.

 

[Snake~eyes]

Theres a feature called dump in phpMyAdmin where you dump the thing in to a text file

it will call it say filename.sql

then you go into the other site with phpmyadmin and you just run that query.. simple as that

 

[]v[est]

Wow i guess i was just trying to make that harder than it was. Thanks for taking the time to post and not flaming my noobism lol. Keep up the good work guys, o ya i got it all setup and working good.

Thanks again.

 

[Snake~eyes]

lol

we're not here to flame peopel that have questions. We're here to answer peoples questions, and that one saying.. no question is a dumb question or somthin like that.