Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files
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34for I in $(mysql -e 'show databases' -s --skip-column-names); do mysqldump $I | gzip > "$I.sql.gz"; done
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20for db in $(mysql -e 'show databases' -s --skip-column-names); do mysqldump $db | gzip > "/backups/mysqldump-$(hostname)-$db-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).gz"; done
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Backups all MySQL databases to individual files. Can be put into a script that grabs current date so you have per day backups.
9for I in `echo "show databases;" | mysql | grep -v Database`; do mysqldump $I > "$I.sql"; done -
Backs up all databases, excluding test, mysql, performance_schema, information_schema. Requires parallel to work, install parallel on Ubuntu by running: sudo aptitude install parallel
1mysql -e 'show databases' -s --skip-column-names | egrep -v "^(test|mysql|performance_schema|information_schema)$" | parallel --gnu "mysqldump --routines {} > {}_daily.sql" -
just better bash
0while read; do mysqldump $REPLY | gzip > "/backup/mysql/$REPLY.sql.gz"; done < <( mysql -e 'show databases' -s --skip-column-names )
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mysql -e 'show databases' | sed -n '2,$p' | xargs -I DB 'mysqldump DB > DB.sql'I found this on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1375905/putting-the-data-passed-to-xargs-twice-in-one-linemysql -u root -pPASSWORD -B -e 'show databases' | sed -e '$!N; s/Database\n//' | xargs -L1 -I db mysqldump -u root -pPASSWORD -r db.backup.sql db; gzip *.sqlBut liked the "sed -n '2,$p' ", in the previous example, so I tried it like this... and it works like a champ!!mysql -e 'show databases' | sed -n '2,$p' | xargs -L1 -I db mysqldump -r db.backup.sql dbCheers, Danmysql -p -e 'show databases'|sed 1d|xargs -I DB mysqldump -p DB -r DB.sqlOnly way I could get it to work was with those modifications...ymmv.