1. set host+user+pass+db 2. dump without logs, etc.3. tail for completed (check dump)4. dump logs structure, etc.5. tail for completed (check dump)6. compress ps: possible to set the password to empty string? (which asks for the password on commandline). (= not tested).

magento-db-dump.sh

export MySQLDUMP_HOSTNAME=
export MySQLDUMP_USERNAME=
export MySQLDUMP_DATABASE=
export MySQLDUMP_PASSWORD=
export MySQLTABLE_PREFIX=



mysqldump -p$MySQLDUMP_PASSWORD -h$MySQLDUMP_HOSTNAME -u$MySQLDUMP_USERNAME ${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE} \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}core_cache \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}core_cache_tag \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_url \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_url_info  \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_visitor \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_visitor_info  \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_customer \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_quote \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}report_event  \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}report_viewed_product_index \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}index_event \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}index_process_event  \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}dataflow_batch_export  \
--ignore-table=${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}dataflow_batch_import \
> "mysqldb-${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.sql";

tail -n1 mysqldb-${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.sql ;

mysqldump -p$MySQLDUMP_PASSWORD -h$MySQLDUMP_HOSTNAME -u$MySQLDUMP_USERNAME ${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE} \
--no-data \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}core_cache \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}core_cache_tag \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_url \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_url_info  \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_visitor \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_visitor_info  \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_customer \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}log_quote \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}report_event  \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}report_viewed_product_index \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}index_event \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}index_process_event  \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}dataflow_batch_export  \
${MySQLTABLE_PREFIX}dataflow_batch_import \
>> "mysqldb-${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.sql";

tail -n1 mysqldb-${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.sql ;

gzip mysqldb-${MySQLDUMP_DATABASE}.sql ;

Misschien credentials direct uitlezen:
mysqldump -hsed -n 's/^._<host><![CDATA[(._)]]><\/host>._/\1/p' app/etc/local.xml | head -n1
-used -n 's/^._<username><![CDATA[(._)]]><\/username>._/\1/p' app/etc/local.xml | head -n1
-psed -n 's/^._<password><![CDATA[(._)]]><\/password>._/\1/p' app/etc/local.xml | head -n1
sed -n 's/^._<dbname><![CDATA[(._)]]><\/dbname>._/\1/p' app/etc/local.xml | head -n1\

Possible, but then i would depend on having access to the source code next to the database.
But nice idea, maybe adding them to environmental variables.

Notice that, when you omit the password value for "export MySQLDUMP_PASSWORD=", mysqldump prompts for the password.
So its not stored in your history.

Hi, And how about removing the triggers definers from the file as well?

Currently I have to manually run this command:

sed -E 's/DEFINER=[^]+@[^]+/DEFINER=CURRENT_USER/g' my_db_dump.sql > my_db_dump.sql.portable.sql