MySQL efficiently copy all records from one table to another

Question

Is there a more-efficent, less laborious way of copying all records from one table to another that doing this:

INSERT INTO product_backup SELECT * FROM produ         


        

Answer 1

mysqldump -R --add-drop-table db_name table_name > filepath/file_name.sql

This will take a dump of specified tables with a drop option to delete the exisiting table when you import it. then do,

mysql db_name < filepath/file_name.sql