I have WampServer 2.0 that is installed on Windows on my laptop.
I'm running on it an application that I wrote. The application is working with MySQL database.
I would like to make backups of this database periodically.
How this can be done ?
How could I define cron on Windows ?
The rough equivalent of crontab -e for Windows is the at command, as in:
at 22:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F C:\path\to\mysql\bin\mysqldump.exe ...
Running the at command by itself lists the tasks you've created using at.
The most popular way to backup MySQL database is to use mysqldump:
Open a Windows command line.
Specify the directory to mysqldump utility
cd "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7\bin"
Create a dump of your MySQL database.
mysqldump.exe --user=YourUserName --password=YourPassword --host=localhost --port=3306 --result-file="Pathdump.sql" --databases "DatabaseName"
Also, there are a lot of third-party tools, which can perform MySQL backups automatically on a regular basis.
You could use a bash script.
#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -uroot -ppwd --opt db1 > /sqldata/db1.sql
mysqldump -uroot -ppwd --opt db2 > /sqldata/db2.sql
cd /sqldata/
tar -zcvf sqldata.tgz *.sql
cd /scripts/
perl emailsql.pl
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