While the quick user backup as this one-line commandmysqldump -u [user] -p mysql > [Path]/[user_backup_filename].sql
might work when you have same version for backup and restore SQL. In most cases, you want to implement something similar to the following bash script
Step 1: On your server, in terminal, prepare the following bash file using vi (or vim or any text-editor of choice)
Step 2: Paste in the content of the file as follow:
PASSWORD
: change to your root
password or the password of the user that you use for the backup process. If you don't use root
then change root
on line 8 to your user
path
: use your specified path to the output file
oe_backup-user-$(date +\%Y\%m\%d).sql
: the output file will have the current date concatenated at the end of the file
This script above also not save oldroot
user info or empty users. You can change it by modify the code on line 12
Step 3: make sure you (or the user that run the mariadb_user_backup.sh
file has the sufficient permission (i.e. chown
) and make the script file executable:
Step 4: Execute the script file to obtain the user backup file
Similar to the guide here.
If your new SQL server is newer than your old one, after importing both database(s) and users, you can run the following command in terminal to upgrade MySQL:
This is procedure to backup Open Enventory database and restore it later on the same server or migrating to a different server
This guide is for Linux environment with Apache2, PHP and MariaDB (MySQL) (LAMP) stack:
1. In Terminal window, type the following command:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info:
[user]: in most cases, use root
(recommended)
[database]: use the name of the database that you want to backup
[Path] and [backup_filename] : any path and filename
If you want to compress the SQL backup files, you can use this command instead:
| xz
was added for compressing SQL file to .xz file
Make sure that you have .xz
at the end of the file as above.
.xz
files seem to have the best compression vs bzip2 and gzip for SQL files. You can see more info and :
For example usage of xz
, see this .
2. Type in password for the user above and then Enter (nothing will show when you are typing the password)
1. In Terminal window, type the following command:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info:
[user]
: in most cases, use root
(recommended)
[Path]
and [backup_filename]
: any path and filename
While this approach might work well in case of same MySQL or MariaDB version, if you migrate or upgrade SQL, you want to follow the instruction here for better users backup:
2. Type in password for the user above and then Enter (nothing will show when you are typing the password)
Step 1: transfer both files (database and users, if you want to keep the same users and passwords) to the new system/server
Step 3 (optional):
If you have compressed the SQL file as instruction above, you will need to decompress the file first.
This is for compressed file with .xz
extension:
-v
: verbose, give more info
k
: to keep the compressed file, this will generated the uncompressed file .sql
Step 4: use ssh and terminal, login as terminal root and run:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info:
[database-name]
: use the name of the database that you want to backup
[/path/backup-database]
and [/path/backup-user]
: any path and filename
Step 5: go to OE on web browser and login with mysql root
account.
Step 6: go to Settings
and then click on Recreate users
. That should reactivate all users and their passwords.
While the general steps are similar, the exact paths to the executable command are different for Mac OS and Windows using XAMPP, please follow the corresponding guides below:
1. In Terminal window, type the following command:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info:
[user]: in most cases, use root
(recommended).
[database]: use the name of the database that you want to backup
[Path] and [backup_filename] : any path and filename
2. Type in password for the user above and then Enter (nothing will show when you are typing the password)
1. In Terminal window, type the following command:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info:
[user]: in most cases, use root
(recommended).
[Path] and [user_backup_filename] : any path and filename
2. Type in password for the user above and then Enter (nothing will show when you are typing the password)
Step 1: transfer both files (database and users, if you want to keep the same users and passwords) to the new system/server
Step 3: use ssh and terminal, login as terminal root and run:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info:
[database-name]: use the name of the database that you want to backup
[/path/to/backup-database]: any path and filename
Step 4: go to OE on web browser and login with mysql root
account.
If the mysql root
user in the old database has password different than the current mysql root
user, after step 3 above, the root
user password will be changed to the old password.
Step 5: go to Settings
and then click on Recreate users
. That should reactivate all users and their passwords.
1. Open a Window Powershell window, type the following command:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info.
[user]: in most cases, use root
(recommended).
[database]: use the name of the database that you want to backup
[Path] and [backup_filename] : any path and filename
2. Type in password for the user above and then Enter (nothing will show when you are typing the password)
1. In Terminal window, type the following command:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info:
[user]: in most cases, use root
(recommended).
[Path] and [user_backup_filename] : any path and filename
2. Type in password for the user above and then Enter (nothing will show when you are typing the password)
Step 1: transfer both files (database and users, if you want to keep the same users and passwords) to the new system/server
Step 3: use ssh and terminal, login as terminal root and run:
Replace [italic_text] (including the square bracket) with specific info:
[database-name]: use the name of the database that you want to backup
[/path/to/backup-database]: any path and filename
Step 4: go to OE on web browser and login with mysql root
account.
If the mysql root
user in the old database has password different than the current mysql root
user, after step 3 above, the root
user password will be changed to the old password.
Step 5: go to Settings
and then click on Recreate users
. That should reactivate all users and their passwords.
Step 2: if you have not done so.
If the mysql root
user in the old database has password different than the current mysql root
user, after step 3 above, the root
user password will be changed to the old password.If you don't know the old mysql root
password, follow this tutorial to .
Again, if you have migrate from MariaDB < 10.4 to MariaDB 10.4+, it might not work and we have to change the command in step 3 above. The reason is because the mysql.user table is deprecated in MariaDB 10.4. You can read more about it .
Step 2: if you have not done so.
If you don't know the old mysql root
password, follow this tutorial to .
Again, if you have migrate from MariaDB < 10.4 to MariaDB 10.4+, it might not work and we have to change the command in step 3 above. The reason is because the mysql.user table is deprecated in MariaDB 10.4. You can read more about it .
In the command above, this part is for the default XAMPP set up. If some error happens, you should find the executable file inside XAMPP folder in your system. You can try to follow this .
Step 2: if you have not done so.
If you don't know the old mysql root
password, follow this tutorial to .
Again, if you have migrate from MariaDB < 10.4 to MariaDB 10.4+, it might not work and we have to change the command in step 3 above. The reason is because the mysql.user table is deprecated in MariaDB 10.4. You can read more about it .
1. Go to your Open Enventory Login page on your web browser
2. On the Login page, fill in the following info:
- Database
: name for the new database
- Username
: root
- Password
: your mysql root password
3. Open Enventory will then create a new empty database
This allows for users in one database to see chemicals in another database and/or vice versa.
Note: in the default setting, OE only allows user in one database to see if other databases have chemical(s) but not revealing the chemical's location.
If you want to let users in one database to be able to see location of chemicals in another database, after connecting the databases, please follow the instruction in this link.
1. Go to your Open Enventory Login page on your web browser
2. Log into your database of interest using root as Username
and your mysql root password as Password
3. Go to Settings
on Top menus:
4. On the left side menu, choose Manage databases
:
5. There are two types of connections:
2-way connections: users in one database can see/search chemicals in another database AND vice versa
1-way connection: users in one database can see/search chemicals in another database BUT NOT vice versa)
choose the desired connection and follow the instruction below.
Step 1: Choose as databases that you want to connect (hold Ctrl while choosing). You can choose more than 2. Click select all
if you want to connect all databases
Step 2: Click the button Connect selected databases
Using the rubric table, the databases with name in the bold format and listed horizontally in the first row of the table will be able to see/search chemical in database(s) (list vertically in the first column) that has checked check box
For example:
In the picture below, users in romo
database will be able to see/search chemicals in romo_test
database BUT users in romo_test
database will NOT be able to see/search any chemicals in romo
database.
Step 1: using the info above, make the connection of interest by checking the check boxes
Done! You can now search chemicals in other database(s) in the search page
Step 3: Click the green check mark
Step 2: Click the green check mark