title: Local Download of Amazon RDS database
body: <p>I am looking to create a local version of my companies database from Amazon's RDS service.  Luckily, I was able to find a possible answer to my question here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12133979/create-local-copy-of-amazon-rds-database">Create local copy of Amazon RDS Database</a></p>
  
  <p>but the asnwer on that link conflicts with the answer to a very similar question here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11553371/local-replica-of-rds-database">Local replica of RDS database</a></p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, since I am but a new user on this site and stackoverflow has a rewards system, I cannot comment on the answer for further follow up because of my reputation.  Here is the line of code that the link says will copy my database on Amazon RDS to a local location</p>
  
  <pre><code>   mysqldump -H &lt;RDS_URL&gt; -u &lt;user&gt; -p&lt;password&gt; &lt;db&gt; &gt; myfile.sql
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can some one please answers these questions regarding the answer given to the first link or let me know if it is the second link that is correct?</p>
  
  <p>Will this work?  If not, is there another way of doing it?  If I am a user under a company account, will this still work for me?  If not, how can I change this so that I can give the command a account, user name, and password?  </p>