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title: "Backup your Database in Git"
date: 2009-05-08T00:00:00+00:00
draft: false
needs_review: true
canonical_url: https://www.viget.com/articles/backup-your-database-in-git/
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@@ -22,7 +21,14 @@ manage it the same way you manage the rest of your code --- in a source
code manager? Setting such a scheme up is dead simple. On your
production server, with git installed:
mkdir -p /path/to/backup cd /path/to/backup mysqldump -u [user] -p[pass] --skip-extended-insert [database] > [database].sql git init git add [database].sql git commit -m "Initial commit"
```sh
mkdir -p /path/to/backup
cd /path/to/backup
mysqldump -u [user] -p[pass] --skip-extended-insert [database] > [database].sql
git init
git add [database].sql
git commit -m "Initial commit"
````
The `--skip-extended-insert` option tells mysqldump to give each table
row its own `insert` statement. This creates a larger initial commit
@@ -32,7 +38,11 @@ each patch only includes the individual records added/updated/deleted.
From here, all we have to do is set up a cronjob to update the backup:
0 * * * * cd /path/to/backup && \ mysqldump -u [user] -p[pass] --skip-extended-insert [database] > [database].sql && \ git commit -am "Updating DB backup"
```
0 * * * * cd /path/to/backup && \
mysqldump -u [user] -p[pass] --skip-extended-insert [database] > [database].sql && \
git commit -am "Updating DB backup"
```
You may want to add another entry to run
[`git gc`](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gc.html)