MariaDB -> MariaDB import issue: Error at line 1: Unknown command ‘\-’ Fix.

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THE PROBLEM

MariaDB released some new code that adds this line at the top of a mariadb-dumps

/*!999999\- enable the sandbox mode */

This is causing the break.

THE SOLUTION

You can either remove that line from the SQL dump, or you can run your Mariadb restore command with the — force option

mariadb --user USERNAME_HERE DATABASE_NAME_HERE < FILE_NAME_HERE --force

Happy Coding.