Exporting a Compressed MySQL Dump
This command will dump a MySQL database, compress it on-the-fly and save it to a file. Replace keywords between { and } with their proper values (while also removing the brackets of course).
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mysqldump -u {user} -p {database} |
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> {database}.sql.gz |
Usually I prefer to use a slightly different variation and prepend the date. This is useful if you’ve done a dump before and want to avoid overwriting it, etc. And most importantly: its cleaner.