Problem w/ mysqldump

Victor Subervi victorsubervi at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 16:45:02 EDT 2009


I tried running it like you said, got this error:
'mysqldump' is not a recognized internal or external command.
If I could just figure out in what file the data were stored, I could copy
it and try it in another computer. Any ideas?
TIA,
V

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdhury at gmail.com>wrote:

>  I tried running the mysqldump command
>> from the python prompt
>>
>
> I think you were being asked to try running it from the command prompt
> (cmd.exe) -- it won't work from the Python prompt, of course.
>
>
> On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:50:55 -0700, Victor Subervi <
> victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am running this on Windoze. I do not use the mysql db without python. I'm
>> just building something for a client. I tried running the mysqldump
>> command
>> from the python prompt. Didn't know I could do that :) It tells me
>> "mysqldump is not defined" :(
>> V
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Nitebirdz <nitebirdz at sacredchaos.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:43:22AM -0400, Victor Subervi wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Obviously I'm sure. It created the file. But the file was blank. How
>>> can
>>> I
>>> > do a mysqldump in mysql itself?
>>> >
>>>
>>> As I said, I only got a blank file when the actual command itself
>>> failed.  How do you dump the MySQL database itself without using Python?
>>> Just run the 'mysqldump' command from the prompt.  Is that what you are
>>> asking?
>>>
>>> Are you running this on Windows?  What OS?  You do have the 'mysqldump'
>>> command available from the shell prompt and in your path, right?
>>>
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>
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