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mysqldump

Export databases or selected tables to SQL dumps.

Command
mysqldump -u -p > backup.sql

Example usage

Capture consistent backups with stored routines included.

mysqldump -u <user> -p <database> > backup.sql
mysqldump -u <user> -p --databases <db1> <db2> --single-transaction --routines > multi.sql

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