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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:53 am    Post subject: Scheduled MySQL backups
 
Is there an easy way (via cron) to schedule backups of a MySQL database what I am looking for is the DB outputted to a folder and regular intervals but have each "backup run" as an individual file.

Hope that makes sense!
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:18 am    Post subject:
 
Hi,

Go to cron, standard, put
Code:
mysqldump -u cpanel_user_name -d db -ppassword > output_directory_and_file_name.sql
(no space between -p and your database password) and choose the interval you want. cpanel_user_name is your control panel username, db is the database you want to backup, and output_directory_and_file_name.sql should be the place you want to store the file as well as the file's name.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:28 pm    Post subject:
 
Sorry to resurrect an old topic but it answers most of my question.

Should the output_directory_and_file_name.sql directory path be the complete server path or is there some relative path I should enter?

Also, will this overwrite the previous back up every time it is run?
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:34 pm    Post subject:
 
I'd recommend the tool mentioned by webstar in this thread: http://community.nethosted.co.uk/topic576.html 

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:43 pm    Post subject:
 
Thanks for that, I'll take a look.
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