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I'm moving my local installation of Magento to a dev location on my hosting server. FTP is the easy part.
I created a new database on the hosting server, then connected via HeidiSQL. I exported my database from my local to the hosting server with no problems that I could tell (no errors reported) but I noticed that when I compared the two databases in size, local is 102mb but hosted is 86mb. I figured something went wrong, so I dropped all the tables in the hosted mysql to start over.
Second attempt was the same outcome, so I tried a different way. I used the Magento backend to make a backup of the database. Once I had the backup, I did the required modifications - removing the /*!40101 and */ at the beginning and end of the sql file, and uploaded it via PHPMyadmin.

Again, everything seemed to go off without a hitch, but when I accessed the database again via HeidiSQL, same problem, the database on the hosting server is smaller than local.

Am I missing something? Will this new smaller database still work?

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  • If everything is working I wouldn't worry about the minor difference in size. – SR_Magento Mar 17 '17 at 12:20
  • Whelp! So far it's not working. Layout is broken and no navigation. – Robert Garcia Mar 17 '17 at 12:47
  • I would attempt dumping the DB with the mysql command line interface. Then importing with the CLI as well. – Ryan Cady Mar 17 '17 at 15:35
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If you have SSH access to both server, I would use mysql dump to back up the database.

mysqldump --single-transaction database_name > database_name-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.sql

Then FTP the file to the new server

Then run

mysql New_DataBase < database_name-xxxxxxx.sql to import

You can then rerun the dump to check the sizes. Use this all the time and works without a hitch.

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