mysqldump backup and restore to remote server

Question

How can i use mysqldump to backup and restore database to a remote server?

Both have root access. I am using putty to perform this.

So far I tried the follo

Answer 1

mysqldump --user=username --password=pwd db_name | bzip2 -c > /backup_dir/db_name.sql.bz2

you can embed this part in a script, afterward you can use FTP to transfer to the other location.

To restore, you can

bzip2 -d db_name.sql.bz2
mysql --user=username --password=pwd db_name < db_name.sql