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MariaDB / MySQL Backup script
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db_dump.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Simple script to dump the contents of a database into separate files in the directory "/backups/"
# Symlink into /etc/cron.daily/ or add to crontab
# Originally from: https://gist.github.com/brianredbeard
# /usr/local/scripts/db_dump
#mysqldump -x --add-drop-table --all-databases > /backups/mysqldb-`date +%F-%I%p`.sql
/usr/bin/mysql --defaults-extra-file=/root/.my.cnf -e 'show databases' | /bin/awk '{print $1}' | /bin/grep -v "^Database$" | /usr/bin/xargs -i{} /usr/bin/mysqldump --defaults-extra-file=/root/.my.cnf --opt -Q -r /backups/{}-`date +%F-%I%p`.sql {}
gzip -q /backups/*.sql
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