cron job for backup the database in linux/php

Question

Am new to linux cron job, i am using mysql DB, my database name finaldb, i want to take this database every one hour,

I have folder called dailbackup, in this i have fol

Answer 1

crontab -e

putting this:

the_date='date +%Y%m%d'
the_hour='date +%H'
0 * * * * mysqldump OPTIONS > /dailbackup/`$the_date`/final_db_`$the_hour`.sql

the above cron is allow you to backup database every hour and using the %H as sql file name