Exporting Database to file

Windows

• From an administrative Powershell window, execute the commands below to export your database to a file

$databaseName="MYSQL_DATABASE_NAME"
echo "Dumping data..."
mysqld -u root start # starting daemon
net start MySQL # starting service
mysqldump -uroot -p $databaseName > databaseBackUp.sql # dumping database to file 

Linux & Mac OS

databaseName="MYSQL_DATABASE_NAME"
echo "Dumping data..."
mysqld -u root start # starting daemon
net start MySQL # starting service
mysqldump -uroot -p $databaseName > databaseBackUp.sql # dumping database to file 

Linux

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