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In that case, we've proved there's nothing wrong with cron :)

So, use

Code:

which mysqldump



# gives on my system

/usr/bin/mysqldump

So (replacing the 'echo' cmds) your backup script would look like

Code:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/mysqldump -u dbuser -pdbpass dbname > /tmp/dbname_backup.sql 2>&1

on my system, should give either the backup or the error msg into that file :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01 (Post 4634147)

In that case, we've proved there's nothing wrong with cron :)

So, use

Code:

which mysqldump



# gives on my system

/usr/bin/mysqldump

So (replacing the 'echo' cmds) your backup script would look like

Code:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/mysqldump -u dbuser -pdbpass dbname > /tmp/dbname_backup.sql 2>&1

on my system, should give either the backup or the error msg into that file :)

Excellent, finally the backups are getting created via cronjob. Thanks Chris!!! Its been tough days for me.

Thanks
Yamin