MySQL Dump Cronjob

mysqldumper.sh

#!/bin/bash
# MySQL Console Dumper
# author: Nico Hemkes <www.nokes.de>
# date: 26.09.2016

# settings
user="USER"
pw="PASSWORD"
backupDir="/media/backup/"
today=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")
filename="mysql_dump-$today.sql.gz"

# output start
printf "\n= = = MySQL Console Dumper = = ="
printf "\nstarting ...\n\n"

# dump
mysqldump -u"$user" -p"$pw" -Q --events --ignore-table=mysql.event --all-databases | gzip -9 > $backupDir$filename

# output end
printf "Backup placed at $backupDir$filename\n\n"
printf "done!\n"