In a previous post, I outlined how I got my MySQL database backup emailed to me regularly from my shared hosting server. About a week later, I ditched that method because I wanted to change it to send my backups to GMail, but the email headers made those emails look like spam so GMail was ditching them. Instead, I rewrote the backup script in Python. Continue reading
If you have a website hosted by a hosting service, and it uses a MySQL database, and you rely on regular backups of that database, maybe you need to handle that yourself. If the database is small enough, it might just pay to have cron email you a backup of the database periodically, which is easy enough to set up on a hosting account with cPanel as the control panel. Continue reading