title: mysqldump not working
body: <p>When I run the mysqldump command to restore a database, I see a bunch of lines followed by a status saying "Dump completed". But when I check, there is no change in the database. Here is the code for the dump:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mysqldump -uroot -p mydb &lt; /home/gaurav/mydb.sql
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here is the output I see when I run the mysqldump command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-- MySQL dump 10.11
  --
  -- Host: localhost    Database: drupal7_new
  -- ------------------------------------------------------
  -- Server version       5.0.77
  
  /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
  /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
  /*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
  /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
  /*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
  /*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
  /*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
  /*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0                                              */;
  /*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
  /*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;
  /*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=@OLD_TIME_ZONE */;
  
  /*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;
  /*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;
  /*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;
  /*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
  /*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
  /*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
  /*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;
  
  -- Dump completed on 2011-11-10  9:48:18
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What could be the reason?</p>