Simple database backup shellscript
I made a simple shellscript it will:
- dump a few databases
- create a tar.gz from them
- scp a copy of the tar.gz to my backups folder on a remote server, this way I will always have a backup of my most important databases on a remote location.
#!/bin/sh mysqldump db_name1 -u myUser -pMypassword > db_namedump1$(date +%F_%R).sql mysqldump db_name1 -u myUser -pMypassword > db_namedump2$(date +%F_%R).sql mysqldump db_name1 -u myUser -pMypassword > db_namedump3$(date +%F_%R).sql FILENAME="compressed-$(date +%F_%R).tar.gz" tar -czf ./backups/$FILENAME *.sql rm ./*.sql scp ./backups/$FILENAME [email protected]:backups/
Just save it in a file, and add it to your cronjob (crontab -l) I run it every 4 hours, by adding this to my crontab:
0 */4 * * * /home/user/db_backup.sh