If only everyone have learnt the basics of command line prompt, one will not have panic like the above scenario. How to backup your mysql database using command line prompt.

Windows Environment for simplicity

C:\> [MYSQL HOME]\bin\ mysqldump -u[user] -p [databasename] > something.ddl

Yes, a single line and it’s all done.

What does this line meant?

The rest is pretty understandable
Example if I have a username ‘root’ for the database and password ‘abc’ with the database name called db and I wanted to save all the data onto a file name data.ddl, this is what I would write below.

If you have any questions pertaining this issue, do drop a line.

Now you wanted to copy multiple folders for backup purposes onto another folder. This is the way one should do

Now let’s say example from folder C:\>techiedan\ and all it’s subdirectories, I want to copy all this into another folder name C:\>blog\techiedan\.

Now you know this, so with this knowledge, you can start writing a schedule or a batch file to run this script at certain period to backup your files.