improve speed of mysql import

Question

I have large database of 22GB. I used to take backup with mysqldump command in a gzip format.

When i extract the gz file it produces the

Answer 1

Make sure you increase your "max_allowed_packet" variable to a large enough size. This will really help if you have a lot of text data. Using high performance hardware will surely improve the speed of importing data.

mysql --max_allowed_packet=256M -u root -p < "database-file.sql"