Command-Line Fu: mysqldump | gzip one-liner

Quick MySQL / gzip one-liner for backups, including current date/time filename

For reference, here’s a quick MySQL and gzip one-line terminal command, useful for a scheduled backup

/usr/bin/mysqldump --opt -u <username> -p<password> <DATABASE> | gzip -9 > /data/backup/sql_backup_`date +'%Y%m%d%H%M'`.sql.gz

Notes:

• gzip -9 is maximum compression
• date is in the ‘201801011355’ format (where current date is January 1st 2018 at 1:55pm)

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