Question

I am using mysqldump to take backup of my database, but the command is not working..
the command i am using is mysqldump -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 1

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