How to backup MySQL database on Windows ?

Question

I have WampServer 2.0 that is installed on Windows on my laptop.

I'm running on it an application that I wrote. The application is working with MySQL database.

I would like to make backups of this database periodically.

How this can be done ?

How could I define cron on Windows ?

Answer 1

Here's how to backup: http://www.ehow.com/how_5981373_do-up-mysql-database-wampserver2_.html

And here's how to schedule tasks: http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm

NOTE: On Vista/7, it's on the Administritative tools.

Answer 2

You could use a bash script.

#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -uroot -ppwd --opt db1 > /sqldata/db1.sql
mysqldump -uroot -ppwd --opt db2 > /sqldata/db2.sql

cd /sqldata/
tar -zcvf sqldata.tgz *.sql
cd /scripts/
perl emailsql.pl

http://paulbradley.tv/38/

Answer 3

The rough equivalent of crontab -e for Windows is the at command, as in:

at 22:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F C:\path\to\mysql\bin\mysqldump.exe ...

Running the at command by itself lists the tasks you've created using at.

The mysqldump documentation is here.