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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