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Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

N GowriSankar — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:13:05 -0000

This looks great. I like the idea of gzipping it.

For our requirement, we were taking two level backups = Daily backups and Monthly backups. The daily backups are recycled every week and monthly backups are stored for much longer duration [As a matter of fact, we have not yet deleted them for past 3 years]. Of course, our backups are only 200+ MB now.

So we have ended up with:
01-2008.dmp, 02-2008.dmp, 03-2008.dmp, ... 05-2009, 06-2009.dmp, etc and seven daily dump files = Mon.dmp, Tue.dmp, Wed.dmp, ... Sat.dmp, Sun.dmp

We used `date +%e` to get the day of today. We used `date +%0m` to get month and `date +%0y` to get year.

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

christian — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:08:09 -0000

thanks very much for this explanation

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:04:21 -0000

I am little new to coding stuff and am bit confused to paths and user with or without password.

Can you please tell me exact script with following parameters:

1. Type of hosting: shared
2. Objective: to backup every database and keep them for 15 days
3. Backup folder: /home/myid/db-backups
4. etc folder is located at /home/myid/etc
5. UserID: hello, password: iamok

Please also tell me the command to be executed on cron tab to run your sh script, thanks.

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:46:07 -0000

Hi,

I am also looking for a reliable and dependable solution to backups my databases on the server and want to keep each backup for atleast 15-30 days.

I guess the solution mentioned here is more reliable than the ones available with php scripts.

Can you tell me the command to be executed on cron tab to take daily backups at a specified time?

Thanks.

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

Esquire — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:36:10 -0000

Just on the code
for DATABASE in `echo 'show databases' | mysql -p`

--column-names=false should be added so that "Database", which is the column name, will not be included in the list.

Thus...
for DATABASE in `echo 'show databases' | mysql --column-names=false -p`
<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>If you want to back up *every* database on the server, then replace this line

for DATABASE in `cat /etc/db-backup/db-list.txt`

with the following

for DATABASE in `echo 'show databases' | mysql`
</ul>

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 04:05:16 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6></ul><ul id="quote">/usr/local/bin/mysqldump --user=root --opt $DATABASE | gzip </ul>

this is for user root with no password, if the user root has a password add '--password=' followed by your password INSTEAD of just putting '-p'

I've tried using '-p' but then I got the password prompt.
try using -ppassword
instead of -p password.

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 21:23:26 -0000

<ul id="quote">/usr/local/bin/mysqldump --user=root --opt $DATABASE | gzip </ul>

this is for user root with no password, if the user root has a password add '--password=' followed by your password INSTEAD of just putting '-p'

I've tried using '-p' but then I got the password prompt.

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:20:32 -0000

If you want to back up *every* database on the server, then replace this line

for DATABASE in `cat /etc/db-backup/db-list.txt`

with the following

for DATABASE in `echo 'show databases' | mysql`

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:05:33 -0000

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Will try it soon.

Ellen

Re: MySQL – Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted.

bofh468 — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:02:59 -0000

I know that replying to oneself is bad karma... but I noticed a typo above. The backup files will be located under /home/backups/mysql/dbname-YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz