Sunday, September 16, 2012

How to get backup of database through cron job...

<?php
set_time_limit(3600);//not necessary
backup_tables('localhost','username','pwd','database name');


/* backup the db OR just a table */
function backup_tables($host,$user,$pass,$name,$tables = '*')
{
   
    $link = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass);
    mysql_select_db($name,$link);
   
    //get all of the tables
    if($tables == '*')
    {
        $tables = array();
        $result = mysql_query('SHOW TABLES');
        while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
        {
            $tables[] = $row[0];
        }
    }
    else
    {
        $tables = is_array($tables) ? $tables : explode(',',$tables);
    }
   
    //cycle through
    foreach($tables as $table)
    {
        $result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM '.$table);
        $num_fields = mysql_num_fields($result);
       
        $return.= 'DROP TABLE '.$table.';';
        $row2 = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query('SHOW CREATE TABLE '.$table));
        $return.= "\n\n".$row2[1].";\n\n";
       
        for ($i = 0; $i < $num_fields; $i++)
        {
            while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
            {
                $return.= 'INSERT INTO '.$table.' VALUES(';
                for($j=0; $j<$num_fields; $j++)
                {
                    $row[$j] = addslashes($row[$j]);
                    $row[$j] = ereg_replace("\n","\\n",$row[$j]);
                    if (isset($row[$j])) { $return.= '"'.$row[$j].'"' ; } else { $return.= '""'; }
                    if ($j<($num_fields-1)) { $return.= ','; }
                }
                $return.= ");\n";
            }
        }
        $return.="\n\n\n";
    }
    //save file
    $handle = fopen('dbbackup\db-backup-'.time().'-'.(md5(implode(',',$tables))).'.sql','w+');
    fwrite($handle,$return);
    fclose($handle);
}
?>

1 comment:

  1. Uou can also try
    create a sh file and paste this
    mysqldump -u -p < myfile.sql

    after that you can call by cron or by PHP script using system function.

    :)

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