I really do hate the captcha (?) you’ve got going on here… At least the numbers are fairly legible…

I use the following script to back up my MySQL databases; I stuck it in /etc/cron.daily/01MySQLBackup on my Fedora box:

#!/bin/bash

BACKUP_DIR=”/var/backup/mysql”

STAMP=$(date +’%Y%m%d’)

if [ ! -e ${BACKUP_DIR} ]; then

mkdir -p ${BACKUP_DIR}

fi

find ${BACKUP_DIR} -ctime +7 -exec rm {} \;

for db in $(mysql -Bse “show databases”); do

mysqldump ${db} | bzip2 –best –stdout > ${BACKUP_DIR}/${db}.${STAMP}.bz2

done

(bet *that* gets mangled…)

My backup script was fine- it was those pesky file permissions when I moved the directory where the dumps are stored to a new location. Our backups do a bit more. There are hourly saves of everything in one backup file, and than on a daily basis, all databases are backed up as separate dump. Furthermore, we archive the previous month’s data just in case.

And why exactly do people get so bent our of shape on captchas? I have seen the ones where you have to squint a bit to get ‘em right, but when you compare the extra task of mimic typing in numbers to a total denial of 1000s of Porn, Pills, and Casino attacks, it is a small price to pay.

Unless anyonew wants to defend the posting of betiality and incest photo sites to an educational web site??