Making compressed MySQL backups using Cron

Earlier this moth I posted an article on making MySQL backups using a href=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron’>Cron, time-based scheduler, on Linux based hosting.

Since then I’ve realised that I have two databases which are well over 1GB in size and have now looked into making compressed backups.

The below example shows the syntax to make a compressed backup of a mySQL database, with the…

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Making compressed MySQL backups using Cron

Earlier this month I posted an article on making MySQL backups using Cron, time-based scheduler, on Linux based hosting. Since then I’ve realised that I have two databases which are well over 1GB‎…

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