You are able to use the command line to restore a database using the mysql command. To restore a file named backup.sql to the database data_base, first make sure that the database is empty, then you can run
mysql -o data_base < backup.sql
It is good to use mysql -o when restoring the database, which makes sure to only affect the database that you specify in the command.
Chris January 8th, 2011
Posted In: MySQL
Tags: mysql