mysqldump backup and restore to remote server

Question

How can i use mysqldump to backup and restore database to a remote server?

Both have root access. I am using putty to perform this.

So far I tried the follo

Answer 1

This link provides information on backing up and restoring with mysqldump. It also gives some examples with a remote server.

The important commands from that link being:

backup:

mysqldump -u root -p[root_password] [database_name] > dumpfilename.sql

restore:

mysql -u root -p[root_password] [database_name] < dumpfilename.sql