Export full database
To export database, use the following command. (where username is database user)
Enter the password when prompted
mysqldump -uUSERNAME -p USER_DATABASE > FILENAME.sql
Then import using:
mysql -uUSERNAME -p USER_DATABASE < FILENAME.sql
Export /dump particular table from a database
For exporting particular tables from a database, following command is used :
mysqldump -uUSERNAME -p USER_DATABASE table1 table2 ... tabllen > FILENAME.sql