Get dump of MySQL DB from Live Site

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 by admin

I'm after an easy, but secure way of generating and importing a MySQL dump from a remote server.

The way I want to achieve this is as follows:

1) I will have a page on my localhost server with a form that submits to a script on the live server
2) The script on the live server receives the request and beings to generate the dump data
3) Once generated it sends back this data to a script on my localhost server
4) The script on my localhost server receives the data and runs the queries

What methods can be used to achieve this? I know possibly the easiest method would be to just POST the data in a hidden form variable, but I'm not too convinced this is secure.

I've heard I can use XML as an alternative option, but not too sure about this. Anyone got any suggestions?

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