Batch File Example Code To Backup MySQL Database To A Particular Folder, Append Date and Time, Delete Backups Older Than X Days

In this post we will see how to make a batch file to take backup of MySQL database (single database) to a particular folder on the same computer. As you may already know, there are various variants of mysqldump command. But for this exercise we will use this command:

mysqldump --routines -u<username> -p<password> <database name> > <output sql file name>

Simple Batch File to backup MySQL Database:

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