There’s no direct ‘clone’ command in MariaDB, so to clone a database you would need to create a new database and then copy all the data across. Here’s how it could look:
1. First, you would dump all data from your current database to a file. If the database is ‘mydatabase’, then the command would look like this:
\`\`\` mysqldump -u username -p mydatabase > mydatabase.sql \`\`\` Replace `username` with your actual username. It will prompt you for the password.1. The previous step creates a file mydatabase.sql that contains all SQL commands to create tables and fill them with data.
1. You need to create a new database.
\`\`\` mysql -u username -p -e “create database mydatabase\_clone“ \`\`\` Replace `username` with your MariaDB username and `mydatabase_clone` with the name of new database you want to clone to. If your MariaDB server is running on custom host (other than localhost) and port then you need to use `-h` and `-P` flags to specify them. For example: \`\`\` mysql -u username -p -h 192.168.1.100 -P 3307 -e “create database mydatabase\_clone“ \`\`\`1. When the database is created you need to fill that new database with data.
\`\`\` mysql -u username -p mydatabase\_clone < mydatabase.sql \`\`\`Now the ‘mydatabase\_clone’ database is a clone of the ‘mydatabase’ database.
Please, replace `username`, `mydatabase` and `mydatabase_clone` with your actual username and database names. If the MariaDB server is not installed locally, you will need to specify the correct server using `-h` option.
