Backing Up Views with Mysql Dump

Question

I want to back up only the Views with mysqldump.

Is this possible?

If so, how?

Answer 1

I would stick as closely as possible to the output of mysqldump like the OP asked, since it includes a slew of information about the view that can't be reconstructed with a simple query from the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

This is how I create a deployment view script from my source database:

SOURCEDB="my_source_db"
mysql $SOURCEDB --skip-column-names  -B -e \
"show full tables where table_type = 'view'" \
| awk '{print $1}' \
| xargs -I {} mysqldump $SOURCEDB {} > views.sql