How to back up MySQL databases from the command line in Linux Your email has been sent Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases.

This is likely because when I first learned it was with command-line tools, but even so, I think command-line database tools often are the best way to interact with a database manually. Two of the ...

I tried using the following commands to shutdown and startup MySQL and although it did, it also changed the permissions on the databases and I could no longer work with them in phpmyadmin until i ...