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-From the command line:
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 First you must login to MySQL
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+        mysql -u root -p — (the root part assumes root is your mysql username)
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+A database backup is essentially a file that contains all the tables, fields and data from your database, stored in a text file.
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+To perform a backup, use the following command line:
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+        mysqldump database_name > database_name.sql
+        database name is the SQL database name (the output can be different)
+        e.g. mysqldump gallery > gallery.sql
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+This command only backs up a single database, if you wish to do multiple databases then use:
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+        mysqldump --databases database_one database_two > two_databases.sql
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+This allows the backup of many databases, in to one backup file.
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+You can backup all databases with this command:
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+        mysqldump --all-databases > all_databases.sql
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