10 Ways to Generate a Random Password from the Command Line - How-To GeekThere are many reasons you would want to restore a database from a backup file... But you should also test this on a test server just to make sure that your database backups are working correctly. Here's the syntax: mysql -h hostname -u username -pthepassword databasename < dumpfile.sql Here's an example: mysql -h localhost -u root -p72aDufi8 db01 < thedumpfile.sql
