Automatic db backup function

<?php backup_database_tables('host','username','password','db', '*'); //automatic db backup function function backup_database_tables($host,$user,$pass,$name,$tables) { $link = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass); mysql_select_db($name,$link); //get all tables if($tables == '*') { $tables = array(); $result = mysql_query('SHOW TABLES'); while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { $tables[] = $row[0]; } } else { $tables = is_array($tables) ? $tables : explode(',',$tables); } //looping through all tables foreach($tables as $table) { $result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM '.$table); $num_fields = mysql_num_fields($result); $return.= 'DROP TABLE '.$table.';'; $row2 = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query('SHOW CREATE TABLE '.$table)); $return.= "\n\n".$row2[1].";\n\n"; for ($i = 0; $i < $num_fields; $i++) { while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { $return.= 'INSERT INTO '.$table.' VALUES('; for($j=0; $j<$num_fields; $j++) { $row[$j] = addslashes($row[$j]); $row[$j] = ereg_replace("\n","\\n",$row[$j]); if (isset($row[$j])) { $return.= '"'.$row[$j].'"' ; } else { $return.= '""'; } if ($j<($num_fields-1)) { $return.= ','; } } $return.= ");\n"; } } $return.="\n\n\n"; } //Save file $handle = fopen('db-backup-'.time().'-'.(md5(implode(',',$tables))).'.sql','w+'); fwrite($handle,$return); fclose($handle); } ?>
Add this task to crontab:
wget -O /dev/null http://<site_name>/database_backup/backup.php

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