Recently, I wanted to upload a 10GB SQL file to MySQL using PhpMyAdmin. unfortunately, it didn’t work properly. the fields were created in the database but with no records. It seemed to be a memory and PHP configuration issue. After that i made some searches. And eventually, figured out that there is a script called BigDump is made for this purpose.
To restore the very large backup of your mySQL database (or a part of it) into the new or the same mySQL database. You can’t access the server shell and you can’t import the dump using phpMyAdmin or any other scripts due to hard memory resp. runtime limit of the web server. -ozerov.de/bigdump.php
alright, so now all what you gotta do is to follow these steps:
- Download the script (10 KB ZIP archive).
- open BigDump.php with any text editor. Edit your MySQL connection information.
$db_server = ''; $db_name = ''; $db_username = ''; $db_password = '';
- Upload the script (bigdump.php) to your server.
- Upload the SQL (.sql) file to your server.
- Go to http://www.mywebsite.com/bigdump.php and from there you can start the process.
- Click on Start Import and you are done! Congrats.
For more information and detailed steps, you can visit BigDump homepage.