Create and import a MySQL dump

Dumping a MySQL database is that simple:

 /path/to/mysqldump -u$DBUSER -p$DBPASSWD -h$DBHOST $DBNAME > $FILENAME  

Importing the dump back into a MySQL DB looks like this:

 /path/to/mysql -u $DBUSER -p$DBPASSWD --database=$DBNAME < $FILENAME  

If the database to import is encoded with UTF8 it might be necessary to use the option
--default_character_set

 /path/to/mysql -u $DBUSER -p$DBPASSWD --default_character_set utf8 --database=$DBNAME < $FILENAME