# (1) set up all the mysqldump variables

DATE=`date +"%d_%b_%Y_%H%M"`

SQLFILE=/backup/db_backup_megaimkon_prod_${DATE}.sql

DATABASE=name

USER=username

PASSWORD='passsword'

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# (2) in case you run this more than once a day,

# remove the previous version of the file

unalias rm     2> /dev/null

rm ${SQLFILE}     2> /dev/null

rm ${SQLFILE}.gz  2> /dev/null

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# (3) do the mysql database backup (dump)

mysqldump -u ${USER} -p${PASSWORD} ${DATABASE}|gzip > ${SQLFILE}.gz

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mysqldump -u username -p databasename > database_backup.sql

mysqldump database_name > database_name.sql