Backup: Rolling MySQL snapshots in two lines of code

Short is sweet — you can’t make that many mistakes in two lines of code. When I recently looked for a quick way to enable regular backups of a MySQL DB for a project our team started working on, I first looked at automysqlbackup. After installing and configuring, I found it didn’t work on the latest Ubuntu Server Edition the machine was running. It also did not give me any debug output, and I wasn’t very keen on debugging that 90 KB bash script line by line. [Mehr]