Andy Budd::Blogography: Idiots Guide to Backing-up MySQL on OS X

Andy Budd::Blogography: Idiots Guide to Backing-up MySQL on OS X: "Backing up a local MySQL database on OS X is pretty simple. To do a backup, you make use of the mysqldump command. This simply dumps the contents of the specified databases into a text file as INSERT statements. The below example simply dumps the contents of my clowns database to the current directory."