Comments on: Nightly MySQL Backup http://www.andrejciho.com/linux/nightly-mysql-backup/ Personal blog of a webdeveloper Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:52:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cristóbal Palmer http://www.andrejciho.com/linux/nightly-mysql-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Cristóbal Palmer Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:44:18 +0000 http://www.andrejciho.com/linux/nightly-mysql-backup/#comment-380 This is great, but note that on Ubuntu /bin/sh is actually dash, which means that this script will fail. To fix it, just use /bin/bash at the top instead of /bin/sh Also, instead of using crontab -e, you can simply save this file in /etc/cron.daily This is great, but note that on Ubuntu /bin/sh is actually dash, which means that this script will fail. To fix it, just use /bin/bash at the top instead of /bin/sh

Also, instead of using crontab -e, you can simply save this file in /etc/cron.daily

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