I am using mysqldump to take backup of my database, but the command is not working..
the command i am using ismysqldump -u root dbname> 'c:\backupdatafolder\backup.sql'
i am running this command in MySQL cli but not running,..is there any thing wrong in the command?
Answer
You are supposed to run that on the command line of your operating system not on the MySQL CLI.
cd
to the bin folder of MySQL first, something like C:\mysql\bin
or wherever your MySQL is installed on
Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : Harish Kurup , Answer Author : bakkal