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You don't need to re-import all of your data everytime you do an upgrade. You can just leave the data as is and upgrade, run mysql_upgrade, and everything should work
The correct procedures (from 5.5 to 10.1) are described at Upgrading from MariaDB 5.5 to MariaDB 10.0 and Upgrading from MariaDB 10.0 to 10.1.