This is the first bash script I wrote, I used crontab to periodically backup and compress a mysqldb in a shared hosting environment #!/bin/sh user=testdbuser password=testdb dbname=testdb location=~/db_backups ts=$(date ‘+%Y%m%d-%H%M’) mysqldump -u$user -p$password –opt $dbname > $location/temp-$ts.sql cd $location tar -cvzf $dbname-db-$ts.tar.gz temp-$ts.sql rm -f temp-$ts.sql
Browsing the blog archives for February, 2009
19 Feb 09
17 Feb 09
These are all speaking through experience Stubbornly kept on using deprecated code knowing that it will be remove from the code base in the next version, thereby hindering a smooth transition. Violating all of the company’s coding and naming standards making things difficult to trace for bugs when you go on leave all of a [...]
