Importing Big mysqldump with Progress Bar PV Rumi, June 6, 2014 I am using CentOS 6.4 box, so it requires me to install EPEL repo at the first place: $ rpm -Uhv http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm Install pv using yum: $ yum install -y pv Installation done. Let the importing begin! $ pv /home/user/my_big_dump.sql | mysql -uroot -p For Ubuntu/Debian distribution intall PV using- apt-get install pv Administrations Configurations (Linux) MySQLPV