Posts made by Martin Dougiamas

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The machine running the command doesn't necessarily have to be the same one with the database, as these commands can take a hostname as an argument. This assumes that the host is configured to allow access from other machines.

So you might look into running the command on another (less braindead) computer, for example, I use a command like this on one machine to make a backup of another: