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# How Do I Restore a Mysqldump File

1. Access to mysql cli

cPanel: MySQL

Directadmin: search for mysql root password in Directadmin server **/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/setup.txt **then run command below

**mysql -u root -p**

2. Once you access to mysql cli, you need see something below:

**mysql >**

3. Now select which database you want to use

**mysql> use db_name;**

4. Now restore the database from mysqlexample.sql. Please make sure before you went into mysql cli, you are that the path that contain that mysqlexample.sql

**mysql> source mysqlexample.sql;**

5. Then exit.

**mysql > exit;**