Comments on: How to backup and restore MySQL database? http://www.unixnewbie.org/how-to-backup-and-restore-mysql-database/ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:00:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: linux tips http://www.unixnewbie.org/how-to-backup-and-restore-mysql-database/comment-page-1/#comment-67 linux tips Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:39:33 +0000 http://unixnewbie.org/blog/?p=89#comment-67 Use the --opt switch to dumpo with all the options. Below is an example how to dump a database from a script and then packing it in bzip2. Especially usefull if your databses get bigger :-). /usr/bin/mysqldump --user root --password="password" -opt $db | bzip2 -c > ../dump/db.sql.bz2 Use the –opt switch to dumpo with all the options. Below is an example how to dump a database from a script and then packing it in bzip2. Especially usefull if your databses get bigger :-) .

/usr/bin/mysqldump –user root –password=”password” -opt $db | bzip2 -c > ../dump/db.sql.bz2

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