This is similar to mine, except I use a shell script. Also, instead of emailing the file, my script FTPs it to a remote server. I expect this approach would scale better as the file size increases. Another point to note: my email is hosted on the same server as the DB. Emailing it to myself wouldn't offer any more protection than just saving it locally. (My remote FTP location is in a different continent!) Edward > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Fuller [mailto:bfuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 22 November 2006 14:28 > To: 'PHP General List' > Subject: RE: backing up a database > > > > Here is a script that I found that has been working well for me. > I set up a > cron job to run this file every night just after midnight. It e-mails a > gzipped sql dump file as an attachment to the specified e-mail address. > > Right now the database this is backing up is not very big. I'm > not sure how > scalable it is (probably not very). > > Suggestions/improvements are welcome. > > <?php > set_time_limit(0); > ini_set("memory_limit", "500M"); > > $dbhost = 'localhost'; > $dbuser = 'username'; > $dbpass = 'password'; > $dbname = 'database'; > > $backupDir = '/backups/'; > $backupFileName = $dbname . date("Y-m-d-H-i-s") . '.sql.gz'; > $backupFile = $backupDir . $backupFileName; > > $command = "mysqldump -u $dbuser -p$dbpass $dbname | gzip > > $backupFile"; > > system($command); > > > > $email_from = "data@xxxxxxxxxxxx"; // Who the email is from > $email_subject = "MySQL Backup ".date("m/d/Y", time()); // The > Subject of the email > $email_txt = "Your file is attached."; // Message that the email has > in it > > $email_to = "me@xxxxxxxxxxxx"; // Who the email is to > > $headers = "From: ".$email_from; > > $file = fopen($backupFile,'rb'); > $data = fread($file,filesize($backupFile)); > fclose($file); > > $semi_rand = md5(time()); > $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; > > $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . > "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . > " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\""; > > $email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" > . > "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . > "Content-Type:text/html; > charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . > $email_txt . "\n\n"; > > $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data)); > > $email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . > "Content-Type: > application/octet-stream;\n" . > " name=\"{$backupFileName}\"\n" . > > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: > base64\n\n" . > $data . "\n\n" . > "--{$mime_boundary}--\n"; > > $ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); > > if($ok) { > echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s") . " Operation completed.\n"; > } else { > die(date("Y-m-d H:i:s") . " Operation failed - The e-mail could not > be sent.\n"); > } > ?> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Edward Kay [mailto:edward@xxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:25 AM > > To: PHP General List > > Subject: RE: backing up a database > > > > If you're using MySQL, set up a cron job/scheduled task to call > mysqldump > > and save the output somewhere. Other DBMSs will likely have > similar tools. > > > > Edward > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ross [mailto:ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: 22 November 2006 09:54 > > > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: backing up a database > > > > > > > > > I have a database and it needs to get backed up on a daily basis. > > > Is there a > > > class that allows me to create a backup and then save it as a > > > .sql or excel > > > or both to a folder of her choice? > > > > > > > > > R. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
