[drupal-support] automatically do database backups?

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Anisa wrote:

> So, the other day, my server's database completely crashes.  They
> restored it, but you know..  scary stuff.  And of course, while I could
> imagine files mysteriously disappearing, and kept backups of all that, I
> never thought about the database, so I was backupless.
>
> But it's a pain to manually do regular backups, any ideas on how to
> automate it?  I use mysql, and normally access it with phpmyadmin.  That
> is, if there are any good ideas that don't involve cron jobs.  ^.^:

No cron jobs no automatism.

You could write a script that is executed through cron.php though and use
poormanscron.

Cheers,
	Gerhard