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Shell script to take mysql database backup

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#!/bin/sh

TODAY=`date “+%Y-%h-%d”`
FILENAME=”$TODAY-backup.sql”
echo $FILENAME
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -uusername  -ppassword database_name > /path/to/store/$FILENAME
tar -cvzf /path/to/store/$FILENAME.tar.gz /path/to/store/$FILENAME
rm /path/to/store/$FILENAME

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December 1st, 2009 at 7:58 am