Running MySQL Backups to network location
The problem was the missing double hyphen in front of the databases switch. The line in question should have read like this:

mysqldump -u[user] -p[password] --databases [db1] [db2] [db3]&gt; \\[NAS_IP]\Backups\MySQL\VMmySQLdevW7\Day30\vmmysqldevw7.sql