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How to backup MySQL Database in command line with compression

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

For those who looking for way to backup mysql database,
you can use mysqldump to backup mysql database.
Below is the script example to backup mysql database in command line:-

$ mysqldump -h localhost -u username -p database_name > backup_db.sql

If your mysql database is very big, you might want to compress your sql file.
Just use the mysql backup [...]