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Revision as of 16:18, 6 June 2018
Automating a MySQL Database backup in cPanel is a two step process.
The backup cron will continue to create backup files until your disk space is completely filled up. In order to prevent this, you will want to create a logrotate file and create a cronjob to automatically rotate out the older backups, to keep disk space down.
Create the Backup cron in cPanel
You will need to know your Database username and database password in order to configure the backup.
1) Log into your cPanel
2) Go to Advanced -> Cron Jobs
3) Enter the email you wish to email the results of the cron job to.
4) Scroll down a bit, and either select a common setting (Once a day, once a week, etc) from the drop down. or enter a custom entry for days, weeks, months, etc.
5) For the command to run, enter the following command. Replace CPANELUSERNAME with your cpanel username. Replace DBUSERNAME with your database username. Replace PASSWORD with the database password, and CPANELUSERNAME with your cPanel username.
date=`date -I`; /usr/bin/mysqldump -uDBUSERNAME -pPASSWORD dbname > /home/CPANELUSERNAME/dbname$date.sql
date=`date -I`; /usr/bin/mysqldump -umyusername -pmypassword mydatabase > /home/example/mydatabase_$date.sql
This will create a sql file in your /home/cpanelusername directory with a name similar to mydatabase_20180101.sql.
