mysqldump : MySQL's Client Backup Utility
mysqldump is the client backup program used to dump a database or a collection of databases for backup or transfer to another SQL server.
The output of a mysqldump typically contains SQL statements to create the database schema, only the data, stored procedures, triggers, subsets of data using where clauses, or combinations of them all. Additionally, mysqldump can also be used to generate files in CSV, other delimited text, or XML format.
By default, mysqldump will dump all databases alphabetically, and table alphabetically within each database. If you use your imagination, you can find more creative ways to mysqldump data faster using shell scripting in conjunction with background processes. Also by default, mysqldump uses --opt, which specifies --add-drop-table, --add-locks, --create-options, --disable-keys, --extended-insert, --lock-tables, --quick, and --set-charset.
There are many options that control mysqldump's behavior when dumping MyISAM and InnoDB data, plus accommodations for making the mysqldump's output perform Binary Log Rotation on the Master prior to dumping and preparing Replication Slaves to change replication coordinates (master Log file,master log position) during reload.
