We are going to create a simple cron job to dump the DBs, so you can save this dumps on the regular way with your backup software.
This way isn’t applicable to DB installations with huge amount of data, so use it only for small DBs
- Create a new user backup with global read(SELECT, LOCK TABLES) privileges
mysql -p
mysql> CREATE USER 'backup'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<<some password>>';
mysql> GRANT SELECT,LOCK TABLES ON *.* TO 'backup'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;- Create a backup cronjob
mkdir /backup
echo "22 0 * * * root /usr/bin/mysqldump --all-databases -u backup --password=<<some password>> | gzip > /backup/mysql_dump.sql.gz" >> /etc/crontab