[Tutor] How to call mysqlcommand in Python , "mysqldump for backup "

[John Joseph]

--- nephish <nephish at xit.net> wrote:

> ooh ooh, i know this one, i have python do this for
> me every day !
> 
> target_dir = '/path/to/where/you/want/to/dump'
> 
> os.system("mysqldump --add-drop-table -c -u user
> -ppassword database
> table > "+target_dir+"/table.bak.sql")
> 
> dont forget the p in front of your password !
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> 

  Hi it  helped me a lot ,
  I did my script like this  for backing my zabbix
database 

import os, time
# difine the target directory
target_dir = '/home/john/backup/z-b-weekly/zabbix'

# in the formar year-month-day-hours-minute-secound
# uses  time module
today =  time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S')

# For testing purpose only I had kept %M %S , we can
remove it later
now = target_dir + today

os.system("mysqldump  -u root -pjohn zabbix >  
"+now+"  " )
                              Thanks  A LOT 
                                  Joseph 

                                                     



		
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