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• Mac OS X - mysqldump on the command line fails

Mac OS X - mysqldump on the command line fails

Symptom - When exporting a website you have developed on the Acquia Drupal stack and a command like this fails to export the database:

mysqldump -u [user] [databasename]

Solution - The mysqldump command needs more specific information in this case. Try the following command. Substitute the correct path to the DAMP stack on your computer for "path/to/DAMP/" and enter your database password when prompted:

./mysqldump -S /path/to/DAMP/install/mysql/data/mysql.sock \
-u [database username] -p [databasename]