Comments on: Automating Your MySQL Database Backup On Media Temple’s Grid-Server

By: Marc Sanders

Marc Sanders — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:12:00 +0000

Thanks Mike, this worked for me!

By: Alex Hardy

Alex Hardy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:42:00 +0000

Thanks for the advice!

By: physics games

physics games — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:50:41 +0000

thanks for the info, i need it.

By: niquito

niquito — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:29:39 +0000

For some old MT accounts that used to be (ss), the main db user isn't necessarily 'dbxxxx', it could be the original main MySQL account username.

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:04:30 +0000

I get a “permission denied” error… not sure what permissions to change, any suggestions?

By: starksilvercreek

starksilvercreek — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:38:10 +0000

Marc, thanks! I'll give that a try. Appreciate the tips.

By: Marc Gayle

Marc Gayle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:50:03 +0000

Clint,
Not sure if you figured it out, but basically what you want to do is make sure that the line-endings are in the Unix-friendly 'LF' format.

That's what fixed it for me.

Also, another issue I found with the script that I fixed was the path. It kept giving me a 'file or folder cannot be found' error. All I did was change the XXXXX from my gridserver/account number to my primary domain name. It seems that MediaTemple has both stored - I guess the gridserver number works for some clients, but for me only the primary domain worked.

Hope that works for you.

By: Marc Gayle

Marc Gayle — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:38:16 +0000

I second Clint's error.

That's what I keep getting.

By: Clint

Clint — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:48 +0000

Thanks for this. I followed directions, but I keep getting this error when I try to test:

./db_backup.sh
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

If I try "bash db_backup.sh" I get this error:
: command not found6:
'b_backup.sh: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `do
'b_backup.sh: line 8: `do

Any suggestions? I can't wait to get this working. Thanks again.

By: thelittlemermaid22

thelittlemermaid22 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:13:40 +0000

I have used this script on my mediatemple server and it works great. A many thanks for writing this article. Its really very useful. I have made(and want to make) a few modifications to this script. For eg. I have modified the date variable to timestamp like this – DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d.%H%M%S`. Now I want that it should delete the last 4 days backup, nut thats not happening. I need to go and manually delete the backup files. Can you please tell me how should I do it?

Many thanks.