How can you create a MySQL Database backup using PHP.If you think the database is too large as GB how do you get a fastest backup?In this post will describes how to create a MySQL Database backup/dump quickly instead of using phpmyadmin access using PHP.Also you can save your time to get backup.
Following function will creating/export your database.Only you have to call to this function with passing database parameters.
Now you have to call to above function to create a backup file.
That’s only.
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How to create backup file as gz format?
Put the following script with replacing line 77,78,79.
$data = gzencode($data, 9);
$handle = fopen($DbName.'-Database-Backup-'.date('Y-m-d @ h-i-s').'.sql.gz','w+');
fwrite($handle, $data);
fclose($handle);
How to create backup for specific table?
Simply pass the table names to the function as follows.
$backup_response = backup_Database('localhost','root','','school_db','users'); // backup "users" table
How to create backup for more than one tables?
Pass the table names as string.
$tables = 'users,country,states';
$backup_response = backup_Database('localhost','root','','school_db',$tables);
This method I tested more than ten times using 2GB large MySQL database file.If you want to get database backup daily you can put this file in to the cpanel as CRON job.
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