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June 1, 2014 21:23
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Cron task to do a mysqldump and then name the output as the day (number) of the week
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| 10 23 * * * /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump --add-drop-table -u My_User_Name -pSuperDuperPassword myAwesomDB > "/path/to/database_backups/myAwesomDB_"`date +\%u`.sql |
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