General | Plesk | WHM / cpanel
How can I BACKUP a MySQL database from the command line?
Performing a MySQL Database Dump
From your SSH command prompt type …
mysqldump -u {username} -p {password} {databasename} > {databasename.sql}
Replace the parameters with the appropriate values
- {username} – this is your database username
- {password} – this is the password for your database
- {databasename} – the name of your database
- {databasename.sql} – the file to which the backup should be written.
Depending on your Unix/Linux version you may need to type the full path i.e. /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump instead of just mysqldump
The {databasename.sql} file will contain all the SQL statements needed to create the tables and populate them with their current contents.
Example To backup your database myuser_portal with the database username mydbuser and database password mydbpassword to a file portal.sql, you would type the command:
mysqldump -u mydbuser -p mydbpassword myuser_portal > portal.sql