Tag Archive: database

Oct
15

Domain Availability Checker, 35,000 Available

Some time ago I created a system that integrated with a whois domain availability script to record the results of the domain name check in a database. I have developed this with a network of systems that periodically re-check those domain names for their availability and update the database. It also does other functions to …

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Oct
27

Backing Up Mysql Databases On A Cron

With all the websites that I run, keeping backups is essentail. I first wrote a bash script that I ran on a cron job whcih backed up each database and then zipped the sql file up: #!/bin/sh mysqldump -uroot -ppwd –opt db1 > /sqldata/db1.sql mysqldump -uroot -ppwd –opt db2 > /sqldata/db2.sql cd /sqldata/ tar -zcvf …

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