Re: [PHP] One Button DB backup [Solved]

> On Nov 5, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Adam Jon Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Something like this little bit of code works:
>> 
>> $command = "mysqldump --add-drop-table -h localhost " .
>> "-u USERNAME -p PASSWORD DBNAME > FILETOPIPETO";
>> $ret_val = null;
>> // create current backup
>> $output = system($command, $ret_val);
> 
> Just a few quick follow-up points on this method:
> 
> 1) This approach shouldn't be used on a shared server, as the command-line
> logs could be viewed by others to gain the DB credentials (not an issue in
> the cases I've used this approach, as the server was only hosting one
> website.)
> 
> 2) I forgot that this approach requires no space between the password and
> the -p argument, so it should read:
> $command = "mysqldump --add-drop-table -h localhost " .
> "-u USERNAME -pPASSWORD DBNAME > FILETOPIPETO";
> $ret_val = null;
> // create current backup
> $output = system($command, $ret_val);

Adam:

It worked, but I modified the code a bit:

//=== start of code ===

$filename = "backup-" . date("d-m-Y") . ".sql";

$cmd = "mysqldump --opt -h $db_host -u $db_user -p$db_pass $db_name > $filename";

$null = null;
$content = system($cmd, $null);

exit(0);

//=== end of code ===

The “opt" does a lot of things including locking the db down.

Thanks!

Cheers,

tedd
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