This documentation is deprecated/obsolete. Lute v2 has been replaced by Lute v3, a full Python rewrite. Please see the Lute v3 manual which includes notes on installation. If you have Lute v2, you can easily migrate to v3. Thank you!

Lute doesn't have a UI for exporting and importing databases. There are a few reasons for this:

• imports are a big deal -- it's too easy to write over things.
• With database migrations, it's also easy (aka bad) for users to restore non-compatible schema versions, and they'd have to run db migrations from the command line.
• In a real-world system, devs or DBAs would handle backups and restores.

In the meantime, here are some notes about using mysqldump:

mysqldump --complete-insert --quote-names --skip-triggers --user=root --password=root dbname > dbexport.sql

mysqladmin -u root -proot drop somedbname

mysqladmin -u root -proot create somedbname

mysql -u root -proot somedbname < dbexport.sql

After you've imported the new db, change .env.local and env.test.local to use the new db.

Then verify the db, and run any outstanding migrations:

composer db:which

composer db:migrate