Comments on: How to: Backup MySQL database & email results using PHP

By: jeya

jeya — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:38:46 +0000

very very thanks for your database backup codings.

its very useful and correctly to work.

thanks.

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:40 +0000

I cann’t locate the mail.php and mail/mime.php files

require_once(’Mail.php’);
require_once(’Mail/mime.php’);

By: webMultimaKer

webMultimaKer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:06:45 +0000

I had to cheat a little bit to make it work on my server, but this script really works brilliantly there too !!
Thank you all for all of your precious hints! !!

c ya !

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:15:49 +0000

Spent a while looking at options for backing up db’s from shared hosting and this worked brilliantly here. Thanks for sharing.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:00:05 +0000

Cool idea. Having it in a PHP script will let people use it that doesn’t have shell access to their hosting account, as long as the exec() statement is available. The only thing is, storing it locally is better than emailing it because emailing anything is insecure, unless it’s encrypted.

There is also a shell script solution out there called AutoMySQLBackup, found here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/wipe_out/automysqlbackup/

By: Audrey

Audrey — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:26:41 +0000

Hello,

What a great way to do backups! I tried to implement the script and had a problem…I was hoping you could help. I don’t have permission to write to my /tmp file (I’m on a shared server), so I created a folder within my httpdocs called tmp. While the program can write to the folder, it cannot seem to create the files on the fly, and therefore gives the error

unlink(filepath…./tmp/db_2008_11_12.sql) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory

When I create the files FIRST, manually, i.e. db_2008_11_12.sql and db_2008_11_12.tgz in that directory, I do not get the error, but the resulting file that is emailed to me is unreadable (db_2008_11_12.tgz)

thanks for any help you can provide!

By: vihutuo

vihutuo — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:05:30 +0000

Nice script. Though some web hosts do provide back ups of our database many shared web hosting providers don’t. I am also in the process of moving one of my sites

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:16:51 +0000

My coworker pointed me to this script. We modified it with an PHPMailer and it works great. It is being used to back up Media Temple databases for us. I created an array of the databases that we want to back up and it loops through and sends an email for each.

Great job.

By: ozman

ozman — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:08:28 +0000

Previous post has SMTP auth

By: ozman

ozman — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:07:10 +0000

if you can’t use mysqldump try this

require_once “Mail.php”;
require_once(’Mail/mime.php’);

/*************** Modify database settings ***************/

$Host = “MYSQL-HOST”;
$UserName = ‘MYSQL-USER’;
$Password = ‘MYSQL-PASSWORD’;
$Database = ‘MYSQL-DATABASE’;
$tmpDir = “/tmp/”;
/*************** Modify email settings ***************/
//$from = $_POST["From"] or die(”NO From Address”);
//$to = $_POST["To"] or die(”NO To Address”);

$from = “webmaster Sender “;
$to = “webmaster Recipient “;
$subject = “$Database – backup”;

$ehost = “smtp.EXAMPLE.com”;
$eusername = “webmaster@EXAMPLE.com”;
$epassword = “PASSWORD”;

/*************** Do not modify below this line ***************/

$connection = mysql_connect(”$Host”,”$UserName”,”$Password”);
mysql_select_db($Database, $connection);
$sql = ‘SHOW TABLES FROM ‘.$Database;
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$contents = “– Created By: My Database Mailer\n– Copyright: Aaron St.Clair McMurray\n– http://www.ourfreeinfo.com\n\n– Database: “.$Database.”\n– Created: “.date(’M j, Y’).” at “.date(’h:i A’).”\n\n”;
while ($tables = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$TableList[] = $tables[0];
}
foreach ($TableList as $table) {
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query(’SHOW CREATE TABLE ‘.$table));
$contents .= $row["Create Table"].”;\n\n”;
$sql = ‘SELECT * FROM ‘.$table;
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$columns = explode(’,',$row["Create Table"]);
$i = 0;
while ($records = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$contents .= “INSERT INTO “.$table.” VALUES (”;
for ($i=0;$i< count($records)/2;$i++) {
if ($i $from, ‘To’ => $to, ‘Subject’ => $subject);

$textMessage = $attachment;
$htmlMessage = “”;

$mime = new Mail_Mime(”\n”);
$mime->setTxtBody($textMessage);
$mime->setHtmlBody($htmlMessage);
$mime->addAttachment($attachment, ‘text/plain’);
$body = $mime->get();
$hdrs = $mime->headers($headers);
$mail = Mail::factory(’smtp’,
array (’host’ => $ehost,
‘auth’ => true,
‘username’ => $eusername,
‘password’ => $epassword));
$mail->send($to, $hdrs, $body);

unlink($sqlFile);
unlink($attachment);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo(”" . $mail->getMessage() . “”);
} else {
echo(”$sqlFile Message successfully sent!”);
}

mysql_close($connection);