Automatic mySQL backups via email (Postfix -> Google Mail)

October 30th, 2009 → 11:07 am @ Stuart

When I was setting up my latest virtual server (courtesy of the ever fantastic VPS.net cloud), I wanted to come up with a simple hourly backup policy for the mySQL databases that reside on the machine. Every hour, I wanted to dump the databases, tar/zip them up in a single archive and email it with [...]

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