How to Migrate Magento Customers and Orders

When launching an existing Magento store, one of the last things you will need to do is migrate all of the current Customers and Orders from the production site, into development, prior to actually going live.

If you SSH to the server, you can execute the following:

mysqldump -u <userName> -p <databaseName> customer_address_entity customer_address_entity_datetime customer_address_entity_decimal customer_address_entity_int customer_address_entity_text customer_address_entity_varchar customer_eav_attribute customer_eav_attribute_website customer_entity customer_entity_datetime customer_entity_decimal customer_entity_int customer_entity_text customer_entity_varchar customer_form_attribute customer_group sales_bestsellers_aggregated_daily sales_bestsellers_aggregated_monthly sales_bestsellers_aggregated_yearly sales_billing_agreement sales_billing_agreement_order sales_flat_creditmemo sales_flat_creditmemo_comment sales_flat_creditmemo_grid sales_flat_creditmemo_item sales_flat_invoice sales_flat_invoice_comment sales_flat_invoice_grid sales_flat_invoice_item sales_flat_order sales_flat_order_address sales_flat_order_grid sales_flat_order_item sales_flat_order_payment sales_flat_order_status_history sales_flat_quote sales_flat_quote_address sales_flat_quote_address_item sales_flat_quote_item sales_flat_quote_item_option sales_flat_quote_payment sales_flat_quote_shipping_rate sales_flat_shipment sales_flat_shipment_comment sales_flat_shipment_grid sales_flat_shipment_item sales_flat_shipment_track sales_invoiced_aggregated sales_invoiced_aggregated_order sales_order_aggregated_created sales_order_aggregated_updated sales_order_status sales_order_status_label sales_order_status_state sales_order_tax sales_order_tax_item sales_payment_transaction sales_recurring_profile sales_recurring_profile_order sales_refunded_aggregated sales_refunded_aggregated_order sales_shipping_aggregated sales_shipping_aggregated_order > dump.sql

 

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