On Wednesday 22 November 2006 15:49, Edward Kay wrote: > 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 Shell script with ftp works pretty decent for me 2. > > > -----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 -- --- Børge Kennel Arivene http://www.arivene.net --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
