testlink: setting up MySQL Daily backup job

We wanted to keep our data safe, so we started taking backups using phpmyadmin, and because of forgetting sometimes, we thought of automating the backup

After doing some search, using the information from this page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html

I created a batch file, called DailyBackup.bat for example

and wrote the below in the batch file

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date/t') do (
set dw=%%a
set mm=%%b
set dd=%%c
set yy=%%d
)

SET bkupdir="path to backup folder"
SET mysqldir="C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.3.0\mysql"
SET dbname=testlink

SET dbuser=username

SET password=password

set zip="C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\gzip.exe"
@ECHO Beginning backup of %dbname%...

%mysqldir%\bin\mysqldump -B %dbname% -u %dbuser% –p%password% | %zip% > %bkupdir%\dbBkup_%dbname%_%dd%%mm%%dw%.sql.gzip

The above batch file needs gzip to be installed

Then I created a scheduled task that runs daily and executes the above batch file