Shell Script: Backup and gzip mysql databases for linux systems
This is a quite helpful script to backup your mysql databases. All databases are automaticly gzipped and named like this DATABASENAME.yyyymmdd.gzip. You may execute it as cronjob every night for example. #!/bin/sh # mysql_backup.sh BACKUP_DIR=${1:-/backups/mysql} # Directory to save backups EXPIRETIME=10 DATE=`date “+%Y%m%d”` # check if directory exists if [ ! -d $BACKUP_DIR ]; … Read more