compression of dabatase mysqldumo
1: mysqldump -u dbUser -p DBName > OutputFile.sql 2: mysqldump -u dbUser -p DBName | gzip > OutputFile.sql.gz 3: mysqldump -u dbUser -p DBName | gzip -9 > OutputFile.sql.gz 4: mysqldump -u dbUser -p DBName | zip > OutputFile.sql.zip 5: mysqldump -u dbUser -p DBName | bzip2 > OutputFile.sql.bz2
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