Changing the password of an (unprivileged) MySQL user is very simple in principal, but most of the methods I have seen in blog posts etc. are not simple and complete at the same time. This is what I generally do: Continue reading
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MySQL backup script with email support and lzma compression (for cron)
Let me share a shell script to perform a backup of a MySQL database. It is intended to run regularly (e.g. as cronjob). I created it carefully. Finally, it may distinguish itself from similar scripts by the following points: Continue reading