Your 1st mysqldump makes table structures and INSERTs and puts it in dump.sql.
Your 2nd dump is a remote dump that is piped straight into mysql in localhost.
If you are trying to catch any output based on errors, try this:
mysqldump -alv -h 123.123.123.123 --user=username --password=p@ssw0rd --add-drop-table databasename 2> output.log | mysql --user=username --password=p@ssw0rd -h localhost localdatabase
Using 2> will catch any error-based output (aka stderr). The mysqldump should still pipe normal console output (aka stdout) to the other mysql session and load the data as intended.
EXAMPLE : I have a small database called sample on my PC.
I ran this:
C:\LWDBA>mysqldump -u... -p... --verbose sample 2>sample.txt > sample.sql
C:\LWDBA>type sample.txt
-- Connecting to localhost...
-- Retrieving table structure for table users...
-- Sending SELECT query...
-- Retrieving rows...
-- Disconnecting from localhost...
C:\LWDBA>type sample.sql
-- MySQL dump 10.13 Distrib 5.5.12, for Win64 (x86)
--
-- Host: localhost Database: sample
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version 5.5.12-log
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;
--
-- Table structure for table `users`
--
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `users`;
/*!40101 SET @saved_cs_client = @@character_set_client */;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */;
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`users_tbl_points` int(11) NOT NULL,
`users_tbl_rank` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `users_tbl_points` (`users_tbl_points`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=31 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */;
--
-- Dumping data for table `users`
--
LOCK TABLES `users` WRITE;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `users` DISABLE KEYS */;
INSERT INTO `users` VALUES (1,785523,9),(2,443080,20),(3,858830,7),(4,964909,3),(5,248056,24),
(6,345553,21),(7,983596,2),(8,881325,6),(9,455836,19),(10,635204,16),(11,808514,8),
(12,136960,28),(13,259255,22),(14,885399,5),(15,649229,15),(16,589948,18),(17,2055,30),
(18,240429,25),(19,195981,26),(20,258620,23),(21,705158,12),(22,749931,11),(23,634182,17),
(24,921117,4),(25,703038,13),(26,751842,10),(27,650093,14),(28,994943,1),(29,24437,29),
(30,137355,27);
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `users` ENABLE KEYS */;
UNLOCK TABLES;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=@OLD_TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;
/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;
/*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;
-- Dump completed on 2012-03-02 15:49:54
C:\LWDBA>
Give it a Try !!!
Best Answer
Linux -> Windows you have two obvious options.
Setup a SSHD on your Windows machine and use the above command (mysql binary would need to be in your search path under Windows).
Configure your root (or similar privileged account) to access your Windows MySQL host over network then do:
mysqldump -u username -p 'password' db-name | mysql -h windowsip -u username -p 'password' db-nameUnfortunately with #2, if you have complex indicies (or huge tables) you'll have issues with
net_read_timeouton your Linux host. For most situations I would expect this to just work, though.