Hobbyist_PHPer Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 MySQL Version --> 5.0.76-standard Hi everyone, I have my first MySQL dedicated server and I'm finding some things to be a bit more challenging than I had expected... I have figured out how to create databases and even how to create a user for that database... But what I need to try to figure out is how to create a dump file of a database, so that I can then use that dump file to recreate all of the tables inside of newly created databases... Here's what I tried for creating a dump file... attorney is the name of the user and the database... mysqldump -u attorney -p password attorney > acsdumpfile.sql; Here's the error I get... ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'mysqldump -u attorney -p password attorney > acsdumpfile.sql' at line 1 Then I tried doing this instead, copying the contents from one database to a newly created one, that didn't work either... mysqldump -u attorney -p password -d attorney | mysql -u attorney -p password -d staging; Here's the error I get... ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'mysqldump -u attorney -p password -d attorney | mysql -u attorney -p passw' at line 1 <-- (I noticed here that it had cut off my password) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236673-how-to-create-a-dump-file/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 You should be doing that in the command line not the mysql> prompt. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236673-how-to-create-a-dump-file/#findComment-1216661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbyist_PHPer Posted May 17, 2011 Author Share Posted May 17, 2011 You should be doing that in the command line not the mysql> prompt. That worked... Thank You. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236673-how-to-create-a-dump-file/#findComment-1216698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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