A python script that uses Google Sync Utilities to back up a mysql database.

gsutilmysqlbackup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os

backup_dir = os.getcwd() + "/backups"

os.chdir(backup_dir)
files = filter(os.path.isfile, os.listdir(backup_dir))
files = [os.path.join(backup_dir, f) for f in files] # add path to each file
#files.sort(key=lambda x: os.path.getmtime(x))
sortedFiles = files.sort(key=lambda fn: os.path.getmtime(os.path.join(backup_dir, fn)))


print "\n"
print files
print "\n"
print "Backup Directory: " + backup_dir
print "\n"
print sortedFiles