You may also pipe the output to gzip:
mysqldump --user=abc --password=abc | gzip > backup.sql.gz
To execute on the other servers, without uncompressing, use the following command:
zcat backup.sql.gz | mysql --user=abc --password=abc
mysqldump --user=abc --password=abc | gzip > backup.sql.gz
To execute on the other servers, without uncompressing, use the following command:
zcat backup.sql.gz | mysql --user=abc --password=abc