cron script for backing up and e-mailing mysql databases

#!/bin/bash

# configuration
PROJECT_NAME='Foo'
PATH_TO_BACKUPS='/backups/foo_database_backups'
RECIPIENT_EMAIL='james@whatever.com'
DATABASE_USERNAME='root'
DATABASE_PASSWORD='password'
DATABASE_DATABASE='database_name'
# end of configuration. should not need to edit from this point

TIMESTAMP=`date +%F_%T`
OUTFILE="$PATH_TO_BACKUPS/$TIMESTAMP.sql"
mysqldump -u$DATABASE_USERNAME -p$DATABASE_PASSWORD $DATABASE_DATABASE > $OUTFILE
bzip2 $OUTFILE
mutt -a $OUTFILE.bz2 -s "Database/$PROJECT_NAME for $TIMESTAMP" $RECIPIENT_EMAIL < /dev/null