Daily Database backup using Cron Job

Question

Hi i want to take database backup at daily mid night using cron job... and the name of database backup should append with current date... the format of backup file should

Answer 1

something like

0 0 * * * /path/to/mysqldump ... > /path/to/backup/mydata_$( date +"%Y_%m_%d" ).sql

should work.

Please read

• man date
• man 5 crontab

Answer 2

Create a cron.sh file with this content:

 mysqldump -u root -p{PASSWORD} DBNAME 2>> "/filename_`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`.sql"

And give the Read permission or full access permission for that cron.sh file.

and add this line into crontab file ($ crontab -e)

 0 0 * * *   cron.sh