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Install Mysqldump Windows

MySQL is an extremely popular database engine on windows today and a common question our team fields is 'How do you backup mysql databases on windows?'
  • Download mysqldump.exe.7z How to install mysqldump.exe: Copy file mysqldump.exe to the installation directory of the program that is requesting mysqldump.exe. If that doesn't work, you will have to copy mysqldump.exe to your system directory.
  • Dont worry about different versions. Go to edit-Preference-administration- (careful here. Go to mysql dump.exe that is found in xampp folder not mysql folder.) example of path should be like C:xamppmysqlbinmysqldump.exe. Copy the path and paste in.path to mysqldump Tool.
The easiest way to backup a database on windows is using the mysqldump command. you’ll execute the command as follows:
mysqldump database-name > database-script.sql -u USERNAME -p

This is standard on many POSIX-type installations (Linux, BSD, OS X, etc.) but not present by default on Windows. – tadman Dec 10 '14 at 19:39 I have Gzip.pm under xampp library. Any process i have to install gzip? – razerer Dec 10 '14 at 19:43.

In that command you’re executing the mysqldump command. This is generally found in the bin folder of your mysql server installation. Dissecting the command we have the following:
  1. mysqldump – this is the executable we’re calling to do the database backup, this is included in all installs of mysql by default so you don’t have to download anything new.
  2. database-name – this is the name of your database you’re trying to backup.
  3. the '>' – This tells mysqldump that all of your output should be redirected to a file that follows.
  4. database-script.sql – this is the name of the file that your output will be stored in.
  5. -u – this is a command line argument that says the username follows this flag
  6. USERNAME – This is the mysql database username that has access to the database you’re backing up.
  7. -p – this is a command line argument that tells mysqldump to prompt you for the password for the user you defined earlier.
Once you execute that command you’ll be prompted for the password, simply copy and paste the password or type the password and hit enter. Wait a few minutes as the command executes and shortly you’ll have a new file in your folder named database-script.sql (or whatever you named your output file) and that is the script you’d execute to restore the database backup (or database dump as it’s commonly referred to).

Content retrieved from: https://support.appliedi.net/kb/a1330/how-to-backup-mysql-databases-from-the-command-line-on-windows.aspx.

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Updated on November 11, 2019

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