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stiobhart on 06/07/09

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CLI commands for backing up mySQL database

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-- dump mySQL database to file:
VAR=$(DATE +â��%y-%m-%dâ��); mysqldump -v -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD -hlocalhost DATABASENAME > /BACKUPDIR/$VAR-DATABASENAME.sql ;
 
-- dump mySQL database to file and then move it:
VAR=$(DATE +â��%y-%m-%dâ��); mysqldump -v -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD -hlocalhost DATABASENAME > /BACKUPDIR/$VAR-DATABASENAME.sql ; mv /BACKUPDIR/DATABASENAME.sql  /OTHERBACKUPDIR/$VAR-DATABASENAME.sql ;

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Posted By: stiobhart on October 11, 2009

apologies for the fuck-up with the date syntax. dunno why this has happened - aren't we all using unicode here?

you can ignore the 'VAR=$(date....) ' and '$VAR' stuff if you want. it's only there to add the backup date to the filename, when it saves the DB dump.

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