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Now that logon2 hosts quite a few sites that are dynamic and make use of MySQL databases, I decided to implement automatic daily database backup tool. Such a tool gives me peace of mind as well as advantage over any competitors who don’t perform automatic backups. Lomadaba (logon2 Mass Database Backup) is my solution.

Already, the backups have been of great use. With dynamic websites, customers can have access to administration panels, add content, manage their shop catalogue, add photos to their photo gallery, or send emails to their mail list. From time to time, even with appropriate documentation and instruction, customers can accidentally make pretty significant mistakes. I certainly have made mistakes myself. With access to daily backups, these occurrences are much less stressful.

If you haven’t got an automatic database backup system, you should consider Lomadaba as your solution – or at least your first step. Go and download or pull Lomadaba from github.

Features:

• Can be used to backup one database at a time or 20. Very little effort involved in adding databases.
• Success and/or failure email reporting.
• Designed to play nicely with existing scripts and their config files.
• Configurable and small enough to completely understand within five minutes.
• Uses MySQL Dump command, mysqldump to create backups. Essentially the most reliable way to create a backup.
• Designed to be execute regularly using cron jobs. Simply make an entry in crontab and allow the cronjob to back up your data.

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