postIt » backup-restore https://lakm.us/postit Post-It sticky notes with PasteBin sense Thu, 02 Jan 2025 01:33:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.18 Restoring a production database into VM … https://lakm.us/postit/2012/07/restoring-a-production-database-into-vm/ https://lakm.us/postit/2012/07/restoring-a-production-database-into-vm/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:31:47 +0000 http://lakm.us/postit/2012/07/restoring-a-production-database-into-vm/ Restoring a production database into VM and change date to make it looks like some point of time inside the production server i.e. in this case May 4, 2010

$ /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
$ /etc/init.d/httpd stop
$ date +%D -s 2010-05-04
$ date +%T -s 23:00:00 -u

Check date

$ date
Tue May  4 19:00:01 EDT 2010

Import database

/etc/init.d/mysqld start
/etc/init.d/httpd start
mysql -u some-username -p < some-db.sql

Note: Hardware clock option in the VirtualBox VM setting is disabled

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