Ok so I've decided I want to write a script that 1. connect to samba share
2. Create folder by date (YYYY-MM-DD) 3. locks the tables on mysql so no changes can be made (I think this is one of the switch commands in mysqldump) 4. runs mysqldump and stores the output into a file named by database 5. zip the file (gzip or bz2 don't care) 6. store the copied file to samba share 7. remove local copy 8. unmount samba share Now my problem is I've never written a shell script and don't know how. Or even where to start ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
