How to backup MySQL database on Windows?

Question

I have WampServer 2.0 that is installed on Windows on my laptop.

I'm running on it an application that I wrote. The application is working with MySQL database.

I would like to make backups of this database periodically.

How this can be done ?

How could I define cron on Windows ?

Answer 1

The rough equivalent of crontab -e for Windows is the at command, as in:

at 22:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F C:\path\to\mysql\bin\mysqldump.exe ...

Running the at command by itself lists the tasks you've created using at .

The mysqldump documentation is here .

Answer 2

The most popular way to backup MySQL database is to use mysqldump:

1. Open a Windows command line.

2. Specify the directory to mysqldump utility

   cd "C:\\Program Files\\MySQL\\MySQL Server 5.7\\bin"

3. Create a dump of your MySQL database.

mysqldump.exe --user=YourUserName --password=YourPassword --host=localhost --port=3306 --result-file="Pathdump.sql" --databases "DatabaseName"

Also, there are a lot of third-party tools, which can perform MySQL backups automatically on a regular basis.

Answer 3

You could use a bash script.

#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -uroot -ppwd --opt db1 > /sqldata/db1.sql
mysqldump -uroot -ppwd --opt db2 > /sqldata/db2.sql

cd /sqldata/
tar -zcvf sqldata.tgz *.sql
cd /scripts/
perl emailsql.pl

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