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While working actively on development of complex systems in small development team, my team often had a need for a simple instance backup, especially where there were more than one database in that instance. Even with one database this will save you a lot...

Very useful piece of code, that we run from time to time, especially when your target database is lower version from the one you are working on. [gist]https://gist.github.com/2319648[/gist]