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Question: I have a shared hosting account but need to import a 3GB MySQL database. I do not have shell access, and phpMyAdmin always times out. How can I restore it?

Answer: You can use a script called BigDump to import your dumped MySQL database a little at a time. This will prevent it from timing out when PHP has an imposed limit. According to their site, this script is for people who want:

“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. ”

BigDump is free software released under the GNU General Public License.

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