Backup a MySQL database

Andrew — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:10:24 +0000

I’ll just quickly cover some options here to backup a MySQL database.

The first will output all the data and all the databases along with the schema:

mysqldump -u <user> -p -h <hostname> --all-databases > all_databases.sql

The next option will output just the schema for all of the databases:

mysqldump -d -u <user> -p -h <hostname> --all-databases > all_databases.sql

Now we can use the same two methods above but replace –all-databases with the name of a database to output just one.

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