On Thursday 28 October 2004 08:22 am, Rhino wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barry Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 7:24 AM > Subject: Ho do I backup > > > Hi there, > > > > I am a novice with mysql on the terminal side using shell. > > > > Basically I need to back up a database and have it saved locally from my > > server. I have tried using phpmyadmin but it fails as I think the data is > > too large. > > > > I have tried the following: > > > > mysqldump -u admin -p --databases yabbse > yabbsebackup.sql > > > > It seemed to work, but where can I find the yabbsebackup.sql file? Not > > very
You might want to specify the full path to write your backup. for example: mysqldump -u admin -p yabbse > /backups/yabbsetbackup.sql This would put the backup into directory /backups. Substitute the directory of your choice.
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