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Migrate from MySQL SQL Files Using TiDB Lightning

This document describes how to migrate data from MySQL SQL files to TiDB using TiDB Lightning. For details on how to generate MySQL SQL files, refer to Mydumper or Dumpling.

The data migration process described in this document uses TiDB Lightning. The steps are as follows.

Step 1: Deploy TiDB Lightning

Before you start the migration, deploy TiDB Lightning.

Step 2: Configure data source of TiDB Lightning

This document takes the TiDB-backend as an example. Create the tidb-lightning.toml configuration file and add the following major configurations in the file:

  1. Set the data-source-dir under [mydumper] to the path of the MySQL SQL file.

    [mydumper] # Data source directory data-source-dir = "/data/export"
  2. Add the configuration of the target TiDB cluster.

    [tidb] # The target cluster information. Fill in one address of tidb-server. host = "172.16.31.1" port = 4000 user = "root" password = ""

For other configurations, see TiDB Lightning Configuration.

Step 3: Run TiDB Lightning to import data

Run TiDB Lightning to start the import operation. If you start TiDB Lightning by using nohup directly in the command line, the program might exit because of the SIGHUP signal. Therefore, it is recommended to write nohup in a script. For example:

# !/bin/bash nohup ./tidb-lightning -config tidb-lightning.toml > nohup.out &

When the import operation is started, view the progress by the following two ways:

  • grep the keyword progress in logs, which is updated every 5 minutes by default.
  • Access the monitoring dashboard. See Monitor TiDB Lightning for details.
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