# Vagrant database setup

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/vagrant-database-setup/1153
**Category:** archived 🗄
**Created:** 2014-01-29T20:13:49Z
**Posts:** 7
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## Post 2 by @swalkinshaw — 2014-01-30T17:56:48Z

Not really sure about best practices for this. That seems like a use case that wouldn’t happen too often so I’d just probably just do it manually when needed. Just running a `mysqldump` on the VM and write it to your shared local folder.

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