Backup database(s) using query without using mysqldump

Question

I\'d like to dump my databases to a file.

Certain website hosts don\'t allow remote or command line access, so I have to do this using a series of queries.

A

Answer 1

Use mysqldump-php a pure-PHP solution to replicate the function of the mysqldump executable for basic to med complexity use cases - I understand you may not have remote CLI and/or mysql direct access, but so long as you can execute via an HTTP request on a httpd on the host this will work:

So you should be able to just run the following purely PHP script straight from a secure-directory in /www/ and have an output file written there and grab it with a wget.

mysqldump-php - Pure PHP mysqldump on GitHub

PHP example:

 array('table1', 'table2'),
    'exclude-tables' => array('table3', 'table4'),
    'compress' => CompressMethod::GZIP, /* CompressMethod::[GZIP, BZIP2, NONE] */
    'no-data' => false,            
    'add-drop-table' => false,      
    'single-transaction' => true,   
    'lock-tables' => false,        
    'add-locks' => true,            
    'extended-insert' => true      
);

$dump = new MySQLDump('database','database_user','database_pass','localhost', $dumpSettings);
$dump->start('forum_dump.sql.gz');
    ?>