What am I doing wrong here? $buffer is not getting printed to the dumpfile. Is it a syntax error? 
my $current_date = strftime("%Y-%m-%d", localtime);
my $current_time = strftime("%H:%M:%S", localtime);

my $dumpfile =
    '>/backups/table_dumps/'
    . $db
    . '.'
    . $current_date
    . '.'
    . $current_time;

my $valid_table_list = join ' ', @valid_tables;

my $cmd =
    'mysqldump -q --single-transaction --complete-insert -e'
    . ' '
    . $db
    . ' '
    . $valid_table_list
    . ' |';

open DUMPFILE, $dumpfile or die $!,
open MYSQLDUMP, $cmd or die $!;

while (my $bytes_read = read(MYSQLDUMP, my $buffer, 4096)) {
    print DUMPFILE $buffer;
}

close DUMPFILE;
debug(qq{Finished dumping $db\n\n});

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