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A bat script for doing MySQL backups I found lying around.
@echo off
:: requires US locale system setting
set dbUser=root
set dbPassword=<your-password>
set backupDir="C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\backup\mysql"
set mysqldump="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Workbench 5.2 CE\mysqldump.exe"
set mysqlDataDir="C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\data"
set zip="C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe"
:: get date
for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do (
set mm=%%i
set dd=%%j
set yy=%%k
)
:: get time
for /F "tokens=5-8 delims=:. " %%i in ('echo.^| time ^| find "current" ') do (
set hh=%%i
set min=%%j
)
set dirName=%yy%%mm%%dd%_%hh%%min%
:: switch to data folder
pushd %mysqlDataDir%
for /d %%f in (*) do (
:: create backup folder
if not exist %backupDir%\%dirName%\ (
mkdir %backupDir%\%dirName%
)
%mysqldump% --host="localhost" --user=%dbUser% --password=%dbPassword% --single-transaction --add-drop-table --databases %%f > %backupDir%\%dirName%\%%f.sql
%zip% a -tgzip %backupDir%\%dirName%\%%f.sql.gz %backupDir%\%dirName%\%%f.sql
del %backupDir%\%dirName%\%%f.sql
)
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