Do you know how to regularly back up the database under Linux?

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Regular backup of database under Linux

How to use crontab to backup MYSQL database regularly under Linux

Just follow the following 3 steps, everything is under your control:

Step one: Configure the backup directory code on the server:

mkdir /var/lib/mysqlbackup
cd /var/lib/mysqlbackup

Step two: Write backup script code:

vi dbbackup.sh
粘帖以下代码，务必更改其中的username,password和dbname。
#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -uuser -ppassword dbname | gzip > /var/lib/mysqlbackup/dbnamedate +%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.sql.gz
cd  /var/lib/mysqlbackup
rm -rf find . -name '*.sql.gz' -mtime 10  #删除10天前的备份文件

Step 3: Change backup script permissions

chmod +x dbbackup.sh

Step 4: Use crontab to execute backup script code regularly:

crontab -e

If you back up at 21:00 every night, add the following code

00 21 * /var/lib/mysqlbackup/dbbackup.sh

Problems you will encounter:
1.mysqldump is the command to back up the database. If you don’t understand, just Baidu it .
2. Crontab is a command for scheduled tasks. If you don’t understand, you can visit http://www.thinkphp.cn/code/1...
3. When backing up data, you must first make sure you have set a password for root. Otherwise, Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect

will be reported when mysqldump is executed. Solution:

Log in to mysql client

mysql -hserverip -uroot -p
mysql> use mysql; Database changed
mysql> update user set password=password('new password') where user='root'; Query OK, 4 rows affected (0.00 sec) Rows matched: 4  Changed: 4  Warnings: 0
mysql> flush privileges; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) //这个命令是给用户赋予了新的权限或者密码，直接读到内存中不需要重启数据库防止出错
mysql> quit

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