Re: Backup MySQL Server 5.1.45

[Jack Brassard]

I think your main issue is that you are trying to run it from within the mysql environment. You need to go to a command prompt (i.e. c:\>) so for windows you would do:

c:\> mysqldump -u [username] -p [password] test> testback.sql;

Basically you need to run it outside of mysql. Running it the way you are currently doing will not work, you have to run from the command line.

HTH.