Perplexed Labs » export http://blog.perplexedlabs.com web development war stories from the frontlines to the backend Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:11:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 mysqldump usage http://blog.perplexedlabs.com/2008/02/05/mysqldump-usage/ http://blog.perplexedlabs.com/2008/02/05/mysqldump-usage/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:23:26 +0000 Matt http://perplexedlabs.com/2008/02/05/mysqldump-usage/ mysqldump --opt database > database.sql > tar -czvf database.tar.gz database.sql To export a database from the local mysql server to [...] Related posts:
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]]> The info is available everywhere but for those who want it spoon fed into their eager mouths here goes:

To dump a database to an optimized sql file and then tar/gz compress the file:

> mysqldump --opt database > database.sql
> tar -czvf database.tar.gz database.sql

To export a database from the local mysql server to a remote mysql server:

> mysqldump --opt -A | mysql --user=remote_user --password=remote_pw --host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

You're welcome!

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