I've read a post saying that I would have to use this command below, to dump my sql files
$ mysqldump -u [uname] -p db_name > db_backup.sql
However, my question is, I don't quite get where the db_backup.sql comes from. Am I suppose to create a file or is it being created as I enter any name for the backup sql? Also, where can I find the backup.sql at?
More information: I am doing this on Mariadb/phpmyadmin on the xampp shell
Whichever directory you are in when you run that command will have db_backup.sql.
The statement:
mysqldump -u user -p db_name generates an output on the terminal screen, assuming you are SSH'ed into the server. Instead of the output written on the screen, you can redirect the output to a file.
To do that, you use > db_backup.sql after the command.
If you are in directory /home/hyunjae/backups and run the command:
$ mysqldump -u [uname] -p db_name > db_backup.sql
You will see a new file created called db_backup.sql. If there's already a file with that name, it will be overwritten.
If you don't know what directory you are in, you can type pwd for present working directory.
db_backup.sql is automatically generated by the mysqldump command, and is located in the current directory (.) by default. If you need to specify a directory, you can directly specify /path/to/target/db_backup.sql.
