Daily Archive: June 24, 2017

MySQL Database Backup | Bash Scripting #!/bin/bash TIMESTAMP=$(date +”%F”) BACKUP_DIR=”/backup/databases/$TIMESTAMP” MYSQL_USER=”username” MYSQL_PASSWORD=”userpass” MYSQL=”$(which mysql)” MYSQLDUMP=”$(which mysqldump)” mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR find “$BACKUP_DIR” -mtime +3 -type d -exec rm -rf {} \; databases=`$MYSQL -u$MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD -e “show databases”| grep -Ev “(database|Database|information_schema|performance_schema|phpmyadmin|mysql)”` for db in $databases; do $MYSQLDUMP -u $MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD –databases $db > $BACKUP_DIR/$db.sql done Making the sqlbak.sh file executable. chmod 755 sqlbak.sh Quick explanation of MySQL database backup shell script Shell...