Oh boy, and here's the big stupid question. How do I
get to the shell prompt? Sorry! Yea, I'm that newbie.
:)
Thank you,
Lillian
--- Carlos Proal <carlos.proal@stripped> wrote:
>
> One common error is trying to do this inside the
> mysql console, instead
> of the shell prompt, i think thats your problem
> because at least the
> first one is correct.
>
> Carlos
>
>
> Red Hope wrote:
> > Hey y'all,
> > I've been fussing with the MySQL dump procedure to
> > backup my stuff. I'm on MySQL 5.0.41 and I have
> tried
> > so hard to get it to dump my files into .sql
> format
> > but my syntax is wrong, wrong, wrong. lol
> >
> > I put below examples what I've been entering to
> get my
> > databases backed up. I always get an error or I
> get
> > locked into the "->" thing if I don't use the
> > semicolons.
> >
> > Any help would be awesome!
> > Thank you,
> > Lillian
> >
> > Tried & Wrong
> > mysqldump -u root -ppassword test > test.sql
> > mysqldump -u root -ppassword test > test.sql;
> > mysqldump -u root -ppassword -databases test >
> > test.sql;
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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