How do I backup MySQL Databases?

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Backup and restoration of MySQL databases play a very important role in a production environment, so here is a simple method to backup a MySQL database. Please see additional articles in the Knowledgebase for a method to restore a saved MySQL database.

To backup MySQL database(s), the following command can be used:

 # mysqldump --user=username --password=password --opt Da...

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