How to export a MySQL database in Linux?

2 years ago
William Carter
2 minutes

You can export a MySQL database on Linux using the mysqldump command.

Here are the steps to export the database:

  1. Open the terminal and log in to the MySQL server.
  2. Enter MySQL using the specified username and password.
  3. The username is the username of the MySQL server. You will be prompted to enter a password.
  4. Choose the database to export.
  5. Select the database named database_name.
  6. The database_name is the name of the database that needs to be exported.
  7. Export the database.
  8. Create a backup of the database called “database_name” and save it in a file named “backup.sql” using the username “username” to access the database.
  9. In this case, ‘username’ is the username of the MySQL server, ‘database_name’ is the name of the database to export, and ‘backup.sql’ is the file name for the export.
  10. If you only want to export the database structure without including data, you can add the –no-data parameter.
  11. Create a backup of the database “database_name” without data using the command “mysqldump -u username -p –no-data database_name > backup.sql”.
  12. After entering the password, the MySQL database will be exported in SQL format to the specified file.

After the export is completed, you can find the exported file in the current directory.

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