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MySQL Cron Backup: Can be placed in the /etc/cron.hourly folder (make sure file is executable) to take a MySQL backup and dump to a file
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| cd /home/bret/db_backups | |
| DATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M") | |
| # Export the MySQL database | |
| mysqldump -u backup_user -p secret_password --all-databases | gzip --rsyncable > backup_db_$DATE.sql.gz | |
| # Keep at most 30 files | |
| ls -t | sed -e '1,30d' | xargs -d '\n' rm |
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Jamie, thanks for the tip! I updated the gist.