Netcat MySQL Stream

In most cases you'll use a SSH-pipe to push a query stream in a database or use the mysql-client directly on the sending host. If you don't need any encryption ‐ for example in a private network ‐ you will lose time (which is expensive in a migration scenario).

A faster alternative is using netcat(1). To stream query's from one side to another (as I said without the mysql-client on the sending host). Simply use this command on the host which is running the MySQL-daemon to open a new socket:

nc -lp 2222 | mysql -u<user> -p<pass>

...and this command from the sender to push the query's to the new opened port 2222:

cat query.sql | nc -q1 example.com 2222

To take a snapshot of your database, don't export it and read the dump with the commands above. Peter describes a faster way Using netcat to copy MySQL Database, which uses the same approach but pipes the stream to tar(1) instead of mysql client utility.

Note: The option -q1 is necessary to close the connection right after EOF was sent.

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