I’ve posted a couple of articles now on making MySQL backups using Cron, time-based scheduler, on Linux based hosting.
This is, currently, the last post on this subject. The examples so far have been on backing up single databases, but it is possible to backup multiple databases using one command.
The below example shows the syntax to make a compressed backup of all mySQL databases, with the sections to change highlighted:
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Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve | Ramblings of an IT Professional (http://www.azurecurve.co.uk)
This code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Int).
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/usr/bin/mysqldump -u {username} -p'{password}' --all-databases | gzip -c > /home/{username}/backups/backup_{databasename}_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M\%S).sql.gz
The below example shows the syntax to make a compressed backup of multiple named mySQL databases, with the sections to change highlighted (any additional database names can be specified):
/*
Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve | Ramblings of an IT Professional (http://www.azurecurve.co.uk)
This code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Int).
*/
/usr/bin/mysqldump -u {username} -p'{password}' --databases {databasename} {databasename} | gzip -c > /home/{username}/backups/backup_{databasename}_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M\%S).sql.gz