Can you try this instead, as the 'exec' may be failing :-
echo exec("mysqldump -h localhost -u root -p testdatabase > Backup.sql");
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Subject: Re: PHP DATABASE BACKUP SYSTEM
I tried it, but it is just generating a blank .sql file see this code I used
exec("mysqldump -h localhost -u root -p testdatabase > Backup.sql");
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Atkinson, Robert <ratkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Native MySQL backup utility
> (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html) :-
>
> <?php exec("mysqldump [options] db_name [tables]"); ?>
>
> Rob.
>
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> Subject: PHP DATABASE BACKUP SYSTEM
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> I want to put a database backup system into my website. I don't want to use
> phpMyAdmin for that.
> Any suggestion or reference for that?
>
> Thnks in Advance.
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