Thanks guys.

Managed to login over SSH with putty but still having problems.

I have a few domains in my account. Do i need to CD into a certain directory.

I am trying to use this command

mysqldump -u username -pPassword Databasename > /hsphere/local/home/Webserver/bckdb/test.sql


to backup my MySQL DB but getting the following error:

Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) when trying to connect


Any ideas?