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Speed up wp db export using WP-CLI
# Export site database using wp db export
wp db export /wp-content/wordpress-dump.sql --all-tablespaces --single-transaction --quick --lock-tables=false
# Gzip compress the recent database export
gzip wordpress-dump.sql
# Export sites database using wp db export and gzip compress
wp db export --all-tablespaces --single-transaction --quick --lock-tables=false - | gzip -9 - > wordpress-dump.sql.gz
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Thanks @dustinrue it worked like a charm!

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