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Shell script to backup and gzip your database.
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backupdb.sh
#change the username, password, and database names below.
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword database > database_`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`.sql
gzip database_`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`.sql
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