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Based on and using capistrano get method posted few days before here comes capistrano recipe to backup database on remote server.

desc <<DESC
Backup remote database from primary server.
DESC
task :remote_backup, :roles => :db, :only => { :primary => true } do
  filename = "dump.#{Time.now.strftime '%Y%m%dT%:%H%M%S'}.sql" 
  on_rollback { delete "/tmp/#{filename}" }
  run "mysqldump -uusername -ppassword database_name > \n
/tmp/#{filename}" do |channel, stream, data|
    puts data
  end
  get "/tmp/#{filename}", "c:/backup/#{filename}" 
  delete "/tmp/#{filename}" 
end