Question

I need to copy an entire database from a mysql installation on a remote machine via SSH to my local machines mysql.

I know the SSH and both local and remote MYSQL admin user and password.

Is this enough information, and how is it done?

Answer 1

Try reading here:

Modified from http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-copy-mysql-database-remote-server.html – modified because I prefer to use .sql as the extension for SQL files:

Usually you run mysqldump to create a database copy and backups as
follows:

$ mysqldump -u user -p db-name > db-name.sql

Copy db-name.out file using sftp/ssh to remote MySQL server:

$ scp db-name.sql [e-mail]:/backup

Restore database at remote server (login over ssh):

$ mysql -u user -p db-name < db-name.sql

Basically you’ll use mysqldump to generate a dump of your database, copy it to your local machine, then pipe the contents into mysql to regenerate the DB.

You can copy the DB files themselves, rather than using mysqldump, but only if you can shutdown the MySQL service on the remote machine.