Creating mysql dump for production databases is very important. In case of any failure or malefic attack on DB, The only way to restore to previous state is by having proper mysql dump file. Follows an example mysql dump shell script with auto naming with dumping time stamp. Its important to create the shell scripts in unix mode, if you create on a PC, It'll add some unwanted character encoding, and it'll lead to some erroneous response on the script. #!/bin/bash today=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` backup="cmtdbbackup-$today.sql" mysqldump -u user -ppassword mydb > /apps/mysql_dump/$backup Its important to create the shell script carefully. No spaces, unless its required. in between -u and user name, there is a space, but no space between -p and password. As per the usage of system, we can decide on which interval the cronjob could be set. normally the format of a crontab entry is like the following. * * * * * /apps/scripts/scheduled_job.sh >> /dev/null 2>...
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