I seem to remember long ago using a command line option for the mysql command line client that allowed disabling of binary logging for the duration of the connection, but try as I might, I can't find any information about it. google only seems to return results about disabling it globally for the server, or as a command that is issued from inside the client. I want to restore a large database file, generated by mysqldump, but I'm concerned that the binary logs generated by the restore operation will exhaust my disk space.