I decided to look back at my mysqldump script and thought it would be better to improve upon the whole process. Important notes: Mysqldump looks at a file that’s chmod 600 for credentials to do the backups and email for the failure of backups needs to be done.
I have updated my Simple mysqldump backup script. This time it will actually delete files older than 10 days. Source: Simple Mysqldump backup script
**UPDATED 02/24/2012** I finally got around to changing up my script and decided to change a few things that would essentially make more sense, the only main difference that I am doing is in the find command I am using better options to cycle the current SQL files. My old… Continue reading