Comments on: Backup Your MySQL Database Using PHP

By: Mihai Frentiu

Mihai Frentiu — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:22:55 +0000

Hi David!

Congrats for the great script.
Most probably you can see the trackback of this article in one of mines. I just added it.
I hope you don’t mind that I used some parts of your script to make a PHP helper. If you want me to remove it, please let me know.

Basically it’s a PHP file that anyone can upload to their website, access it, fill the form with the database connection credentials and hit the backup button. At this moment only a full database backup is available.

If anyone is interested, it can be download from here: http://mihaifrentiu.com/mysql-backup-php-helper

Thank you again for sharing this script.

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:57:45 +0000

Also….I had to replace “” with NULL on the insert of blank fields, by way of how I setup things.

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:50:33 +0000

Nice quick little script David, While there is a bunch of ways of addressing this I like to have as much control as possible and this is a good base. I have ammended/hacked it into line with my intentions, would advise anyone with bigger db’s to use this script, but put limited dumping in, e.g. when $return hits x number of characters dump to the file. This is easy to do and will be useful two fold, low memory environments won’t fall over and for higher efficiency.

Anyhow cheers David.

By: M Tanveer

M Tanveer — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:55:33 +0000

Thank you for the nice and simple code. But does this also support large mysql databases???

By: Paul Riley

Paul Riley — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:55:43 +0000

Using your blog Dave, I found a solution…

I set the script its own limits and presto!

By: Paul Riley

Paul Riley — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:37:59 +0000

Hi – great work – works like a charm although I am having trouble with larger db’s…?

I have one that is showing at 300MB – is there an easy fix to get this working?

Cheers

By: Flor

Flor — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:36:32 +0000

Thank you! You saved me some time!

By: Pulkit Gupta

Pulkit Gupta — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:16:45 +0000

thanks a lot :)

By: Straw Hat

Straw Hat — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:11:17 +0000

thank you so muchhh!! :DD…

By: ORIA

ORIA — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:51:29 +0000

If you use the wrapper I wrote for this script you’ll need to put a www-visible folder in $backupmysql['folder']
and select any file name you need and put it in $backupmysql['filename']
A direct link for this wrapper (might not work in far future)
http://softov.org/webdevtools/?a=backup-mysql.php