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SQL October 20, 2026 MySQL backup and restore a database with mysqldump Dumps a database to a file and restores it later. --single-transaction gives a consistent backup of InnoDB tables without locking them. # Backup mysqldump -u root -p --single-transaction mydb > mydb.sql # Backup compressed Bash October 17, 2026 Linux compress and extract tar.gz and zip archives Creates and unpacks the two most common archive formats. tar -czf backup.tar.gz folder/ # create tar.gz tar -xzf backup.tar.gz # extract tar -xzf backup.tar.gz -C /target/ # extract to a folder zip -r site.zip folder/ # create zip

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