Importing a 58GB SQL Dump into MySQL 8 in Docker: Treat It Like a Recovery Runbook, Not a One-Line Command
Importing a 58GB SQL file into a MySQL 8 container looks like a simple mysql command until encoding, packet size, disk space, interrupted sessions, duplicate imports, and resource pressure turn it into an incident. The reliable path is to make the restore observable, resumable, and boring before trying to make it fast.