backupDB

backupDB is a PHP script to dump a MySQL database and send the dump to a given e-mail for backup purposes.
It was inspired by the backup function of the WordPress plugin “wp-dbmanager”.

License

backupDB is published under GPL/GNUv3

System requirements

• PHP 4.x or newer
• MySQL 4.x or newer

Install

Download the package and unpack it. Edit “config.php” for custom configuration.

Uninstall

Delete the contents of the package.

Usage

Once installed, run “backupDB.php”

Configuration

• $backup[‘path’]
  path where the backups will be temporarily stored; default is script location
• $backup[’log’]
  path where logfile will be stored; default is script location
• $backup[’email’]
  the email address where the backups will be send to
• $backup[’todo’]
  list of databases to backup

$backup[’todo’] options

• description
  Description of the database, will be used as mail subject
• host
  database host
• database
  database name
• ignore-table
  comma separated list of name(s) of database table(s) to exclude from backup; leave empty if all tables should be included, no whitespaces allowed
• user
  database user
• password
  database password

Disclaimer

This software is provided as is without any guarantees or warranty.

Use at OWN risk!

Download

Download (backupDB v0.3; RAR-archive; 14kB)

Changelog

0.3 [2014-05-27]:

• changed: ignore-table now accepts more than one tablename

0.2 [2013-10-26]:

• added: description for backup set
• added: option to exclude single table

0.1 [2013-05-29]:

• initial release