# Taking a mysqldump with single transation:
# standard
mysqldump --single-transaction -u root -proot bettys_local > bak_060618.sql.gz
# with host
mysqldump --single-transaction -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -proot bettys_local > bak_060618_1.sql.gz
# with gz and host
mysqldump --single-transaction -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -proot bettys_local | gzip > bak_060618_11.sql.gz
# Note about host
# where a database is using a specific ip other then local ie and external one the you need to get
# the ip for the database from the etc/local.xml on the server