10 Nov

mysql: backup from remote host using ssh

Sometimes you need to dump a mysql database, and there’s no free space on the server. Here’s you can do to back up the database:

ssh -p <ssh port> user@host "mysqldump -u dbuser -ppassword dbname | gzip -9" > database.sql.gz

At the end you will get mysq database on a local server. Although ssh is slow and it would take some time to transfer the database.



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