how to mysqldump remote db from local machine

Question

I need to do a mysqldump of a database on a remote server, but the server does not have mysqldump installed. I would like to use the mysqldump on my machine to connect to th

Answer 1

One can invoke mysqldump locally against a remote server.

Example that worked for me:

mysqldump -h hostname-of-the-server -u mysql_user -p database_name > file.sql

I followed the mysqldump documentation on connection options.