Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

I would like to know whether a MySQL database can be copied from one machine to another using the mysqldump command instead of taking a snapshot by copying the data directory.

The need for backing up a database is very obvious. In case of MySQL, an easy to use, command line utility called mysqldump does the requisite. When prompted enter the password for the MySQL ...