mysqldump Error 1045 Access denied despite correct passwords etc

Question

This is a tricky one, I have the following output:

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user \'root\'@\'localhost\' (using password: YES) when tr

Answer 1

If you want to create a mysql data dump, you can use mysqldump command. Following command will create a sql file called xxx.sql at the same location from where this command is run. xxx.sql will have all the necessary sqls to replicate exactly same db schema in any other mysql database.

Command is : mysqldump -u root -ppassword --databases database Name you want to import > xxx.sql

Here root is the mysql root user and password is THIS root user's password.

EXAMPLE: If root user password is hello, database name to export is regdb and xxx.sql is the file where you want to export this regdb, command would be like:

mysqldump -u root -phello --databases regdb > xxx.sql

Note: xxx.sql is the file name where this db will get dumped.