download RDS snapshot

Question

I recently downgraded my EC2 instance. I can no longer connect to RDS. I think it might be that the internal IP is different and now the logins are attached to that specif

Answer 1

I also needed to do this so I created a dump of the db (MySQL) by logging into my app server which has permissions to access the db. I then downloaded the dump to my local machine using scp. I used:

mysqldump -uroot -p -h --single-transaction  > output.sql