>
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to run a mysqldump. I enter mysqldump
> -databases in order to backup all the databases. For
> some reason all I'm getting back is a help on the
> mysqldump. What am I doing wrong?
>
> thanks
>
> =====
>
It returns help whenever it doesn't understand what you're asking it to do
(or if your command is incomplete.) The following line works to backup a
remote database to a local PC - Running the same version of MySQL both
places, and a user is setup on the MySQL server that allows remote read
(IP-restricted in my case, but I have a fixed IP):
c:/mysql/bin/mysqldump -h www.mydomain.com -u
UserID -pPassword --add-drop-table MyDBName > c:/ServerDumps/MyDBName.sql
I run a batch job with one of these for every database every day.
Hope that gets you started!
Jay Fesco
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