MariaDB / MySQL Backup script

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