Rory,
Take a look at the shell scripts for mysqlbackup here
http://www.ocsny.com/main/index.ocs?url=mysqlbackup It will explain
things quite nicely.
Cheers,
m!
ROry O'Connor wrote:
>this is an absolute newbie question - but when i try to run mysqldump with a cron
>(like with a shell script) i can't because mysqldump utility stops to ask for a
>password. how can I either embed the password or set up mysqldump to not ask for one
>if, for instance, root is running the shell script?
>
>thanks,
>
>rory
>
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