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Update Backup — Nextcloud section on MySQL/MariaDB
The official MariaDB documents suggest using mariadb-dump to create backups of a MariaDB database.
To backup MariaDB
```
mariadb-dump --user=[dbuser] --password=[dbpassword] [dbname] > nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bkp
```
or compress if the database is large
```
mariadb-dump --user=[dbuser] --password=[dbpassword] [dbname] | gzip > nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bkp.gz
```
To restore MariaDB
```
mariadb --user=[dbuser] --password=[dbpassword] < nextcloud_sqlbkp_.bkp
```
or if compressed
```
gunzip nextcloud_sqlbkp.bkp.gz | mariadb --user=[dbuser] --password=[dbpassword]
```
Addressed in #14850
Thanks for helping improve our documentation!
Update Backup — Nextcloud section on MySQL/MariaDB
The official MariaDB documents suggest using
mariadb-dumpto create backups of a MariaDB database.To backup MariaDB
```
mariadb-dump --user=[dbuser] --password=[dbpassword] [dbname] > nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bkp
```
or compress if the database is large
```
mariadb-dump --user=[dbuser] --password=[dbpassword] [dbname] | gzip > nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bkp.gz
```
To restore MariaDB
```
mariadb --user=[dbuser] --password=[dbpassword] < nextcloud_sqlbkp_.bkp
```
or if compressed
```
gunzip nextcloud_sqlbkp.bkp.gz | mariadb --user=[dbuser] --password=[dbpassword]
```
Addressed in #14850