its not pretty and its not Perl, but this is what we use:
#!/bin/sh
cd ../mysql
for d in *
do
mysqldump -u root --password=putyourpasswordhere --add-drop-table -l $d >
../mysqlback/$d.dmp
done
Script is run from /var/lib/mydump so ../mysql gets /var/lib/mydump
which under debian is the directory which holds all the mysql data
directories which gives me the names of the databases.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mike Willey wrote:
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:31:30 -0500
> From: Mike Willey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Backup?
>
>
> While on the subject of backup scripts -
>
> Someone had asked on a message board for my webhost about
> whether a script existed for backing up a MySQL database,
> and, rotating backups. I couldn't find anything that did
> everything that he asked, so I wrote something myself. It's
> written in Perl and uses mysqldump since the person didn't
> have a shell account, much less root, on the MySQL server.
>
> It's not the greatest example of Perl programming, and it's
> only written to backup a single database, but hey, I didn't
> spend more than 2 hours on it. I've used it myself on some
> of my databases for the past 5 months with no problems. I
> just never got around to tweaking it... I have to get out
> of the habit of treating these sorts of things as trivial.
>
> Here is the script -
>
> http://www.trickortreat.org/mysql_backup.txt
>
> Basic usage - create a directory for the database backups, edit
> some variables in the script and create a cron job.
>
> And here is an example of a crontab file for using the script -
>
> http://www.trickortreat.org/mysql_backup_cron.txt
>
>
> Mike Willey
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
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William Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer
CyberStrategies, Inc
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