mysqldump with multiple tables with or without where clause

Question

I have a set of tables in my database that I have to take a dump ( :D ) of. My problem is I want to take some data from some tables that only date back certain days and woul

Answer 1

So the solution above won't work unless the tables have a common foreign key field.

If you look at my example below, the user_addresses, user_groups, and user_payment_methods all have the user_id field i common. When mysqldump executes the where clause it will filter those tables.

mysqldump -u  -p  
user_addresses user_groups user_payment_methods 
-w "user_id 
in (select id from users where email like '%@domain.com')"
--single-transaction| gzip > sqldump.sql.gz