How to Сompress a mysqldump Backup Using Gzip

What is mysqldump?

is a tool that allows you to perform logical backups for your MySQL databases. The output of mysqldump is a SQL file that can be used later to restore one or more databases.

How to compress a mysqldump backup using Gzip?

in order to compress the size of the output. It has 9 leveles of compression, 6 being the default one.

Let's assume we have a database named

my_app

for which we want to create a dump and compress it using gzip (default level of compression). We can achieve it with the following command:

How to specify the compression level?

Let's assume we want to backup the same

my_app

database, but this time with a compression level of 8. We can do it with the following command:

What else can be done using mysqldump?

mysqldump has a lot of flags & functions. Check out to find out what else you can do with mysqldump.

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