Christian Mayne

Backup

Simple MySQL Command line DB dump for cron

If it doesn't already exists, create the file .my.cnf in your home directory. Add the following to it, replacing db_username and db_password with the database username and password. make sure the file permissions are set to 600 (chmod 600 .my.cnf) so it is readable by you alone. [mysqldump] user=db_username password=db_password The following command will dump the database db_name to the db_backups directory with the filename yyyymmdd.sql where yyyy is the current year, mm is the ...