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Restore a dump created by MySQL Shell utilities.

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Section: imports, exports, and mysql shell utilities

Load a MySQL Shell dump

bash
bash
mysqlsh root@localhost -- util load-dump /backups/mysql-instance
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Useful for parallelized and more automation-friendly restore workflows.

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