Comments on: 10 Ways to Automatically & Manually Backup MySQL Database

By: smithy

smithy — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:35:55 +0000

does anyone know how to backup changes to the database say once per hour or even better whenever a certain table is updated ie an order?

By: Zahid.Pakistan

Zahid.Pakistan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:21:37 +0000

I needed a little variant for mysql data dump with single line inserts and no comments and no db create statement. Finally, the following command worked well:

root mysqldump –skip-extended-insert –skip-comments –no-create-info –no-create-db -u root -pgeoware123 iom3_00_04 > /mnt/pcpi/iom3_00_04_data_`date +%m%d%y`.sql

for mysql 5.1 and higher. Hope it helps

By: Benson

Benson — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:59:25 +0000

most way to backup need root privilege.
Way 6, using php to write a file, don’t work.

By: Polinux

Polinux — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:43:11 +0000

1 one should be like that

15 2 * * * root mysqldump -u root -pPASSWORD –all-databases | gzip > /mnt/disk2/database_`date +%m-%d-%Y`.sql.gz

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:20:21 +0000

Nice tips!
I will try some of them to backup my MySQL.

By: Alejandro Arauz

Alejandro Arauz — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:10:34 +0000

The article has some good information but it would be better if you mention some tools too, running scripts and creating scheduled tasks manually can be complicated when managing several databases.
I would recommend MySqlBackupFTP (http://mysqlbackupftp.com/) . It is very simple to use and it has a free version that allows you to create scheduled backups.
This tool also has the option to export the backup to an FTP server so you don’t need to run a separate script.