mysqldump

mysqldump -u username -p dbname > filename.sql

# Mysql
sudo apt-get install mysql-client
# MariaDB
sudo apt-get install mariadb-clients

# Syntax
mysqldump -u [username] -p [database-to-dump] > [database-to-receive]

# Pipe it! Exporting DB from external host
mysqldump -u [username] -P [port] -h [host] [database-to-dump] | mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 [database-to-receive]

# Limit the export/dump to a sepcific table by typing its name after the DB

mysql -u username -p dbname < filename.sql

Press CTRL+C to copy shell> mysqldump --databases db1 db2 db3 > dump.sql

mysqldump -u <user> -p <database> | bzip2 -c > <backup>$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).sql.bz2

$ composer require ifsnop/mysqldump-php