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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:04:14+00:00

I want to save my currently database on localhost to file. I am trying

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I want to save my currently database on localhost to file. I am trying to do this with following command in my terminal (Mac – Snow leopard):

mysqldump my_database > dump.sql

And I am still getting an error ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near…

I am log in to mysql and normally working with database, but I can’t do back up my database.
I guess the problem could be in a path to my database… but I don’t know, how to fix it…

Can someone an experience with this problem?

Thank you,
M.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just get out from mysql prompt.

    mysql>exit

    and run the command

    mysqldump -u root -p my_database > dump.sql
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