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Monitor MySQL imports with pv

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When importing large MySQL dumps it's useful to get an idea of progress and ETA. The utility `pv` can do this.

Here's an example:

pv dump.sql | mysql -uUser -pPassword Database


And here's an example of how to import a gzipped dump:

pv dump.sql.gz | zcat | mysql -uUser -pPassword Database

The output should look something like this:

[root@localhost ~]# pv /root/mysqldump.sql.gz | zcat | mysql -uroot -pPassword Database
83.5MiB 0:01:50 [1.04MiB/s] [=============================================================================>                                                                                                                 ] 41% ETA 0:02:34
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