mysqldump Restore error

[canton]

I backed up a database using mysqldump but now i want to restore that backup. it so called restored it but didn't insert any tables or fields.

 

the backup file is over 22megs

 

here is what was inputed within shell

 

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MY SHELL INPUT

 

mysqldump --user myusername --password=mypassword mydatabase < ./myfile.sql.gz

 

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SHELL RETURN

 

-- MySQL dump 10.10

--

-- Host: localhost    Database: mydatabase

-- ------------------------------------------------------

-- Server version

 

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;

/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;

/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;

/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;

/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;

/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;

/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=@OLD_TIME_ZONE */;

 

/*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;

/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;

/*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;

/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;

/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;

/*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;

 

-- Dump completed on 2008-04-18  7:44:41

 

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Now at this stage the database is empty

 

what have i done wrong if any

 

im using MySQL - 5.0.27 and fedora 6

 

thanks in advance

[Vikas Jayna]

To restore the database the mysql command is to be used. mysqldump cannot restore.