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

[local-server]# mysqldump -u root -prootpswd db | mysql \
                 -u root -ptmppassword --host=remote-server -C db1

[Note: There are two -- (hyphen) in front of host]

Please note that you should first create the db1 database on the remote-server before executing the following command.