Dumping large MySQL database
During some troubleshooting on one of projects I needed to get latest dump from remote mysql database server I couldn’t ssh to. Easy thing… but the database was actually quite huge…
Problem Not going into details of credentials basic mysqldump command looks like this:
mysqldump database > database_dump.sql Dump file size was ~3GB which might take quite long. Especially when the connection to mysql server was not fast enough.
Solution After a few attempts and noticing that it might take too long to fetch all data I found out that there is a nice switch in mysql and mysqldump commands.
--compress, -C Switch will tell mysql server to compress the dump on the fly so you can save a lot of bandwidth.
