mysqldump from remote host

Question

Is it possible to dump a database from a remote host through an ssh connection and have the backup file on my local computer.

If so how can this be achieved?

I am assuming it will be some combination of piping output from the ssh to the dump or vice versa but cant figure it out.

Answer 1

This would dump, compress and stream over ssh into your local file

ssh -l user remoteserver "mysqldump -mysqldumpoptions database | gzip -3 -c" > /localpath/localfile.sql.gz