Comments on: Free Auto MySQL Backup Script

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:15:33 +0000

Hi real1,

Actually no, the scripts folder is not created within the backup folder so it is just–/scripts/–

The /scripts/ folder contains the script
The /backups/ folder is where copies of the backups go (as well as to your email).

You’ll have:

/home/hostusername/scripts/automysqlbackup.sh.2.2

and

/home/hostusername/backups/

That wasn’t too clear in my original post was it, sorry bout that .

By: real1

real1 — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:59:23 +0000

should the path not be …./backups/scripts/… ????

and not only …/scripts/…

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 26 May 2005 18:52:50 +0000

Thanks for that notice dani, I never thought to check my webhost’s TOS to see if I could run the script! Who would have thought a backup script could break TOS? I do see a couple of my hosts not allowing cron jobs at all, so I can’t run it on those ones.

By: dani

dani — Thu, 26 May 2005 14:55:36 +0000

Another note: some hosts forbid the use of “unattended scripts”, like this one. Fortunately, the only one I’ve found who forbids it does actually provide daily backups as part of the service, so that’s fine.

Just be sure to check the fine print when choosing a host, or putting this script on your site.

By: l. dani

l. dani — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:11:29 +0000

This worked like a charm! Just a note, in case anyone else runs into this – when I opened up the script in Notepad, for some reason it had no line breaks, which made it really hard to find the parts I needed to change. So I just uploaded it to my server, then went in through Cpanel File Manager to edit it with my config settings. In File Manager, it looked like it was supposed to, and the editing was very simple.

Your instructions were very clear! Thank you!