Daily Database backup using Cron Job

Question

Hi i want to take database backup at daily mid night using cron job... and the name of database backup should append with current date... the format of backup file should

Answer 1

something like

0 0 * * * /path/to/mysqldump ... > /path/to/backup/mydata_$( date +"%Y_%m_%d" ).sql

should work.

Please read

• man date
• man 5 crontab