What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Ubuntu Terminal: Efficient Way to Copy Across a MySQL Database from One Server to Another
I often need to pull down a copy of a live MySQL database instance for development work on my local machine. Because my access to bandwidth is limited, I need to come up with the most efficient way of achieving this, and my method for achieving this is chronicled below – mainly so that I can refer to it when I forget! Continue reading
Ubuntu: A Bash Script to Backup All MySQL Databases Running on a Server

The following bash script is written to automate the process of backing up all your various MySQL databases running on either a local or remote MySQL server, using the useful mysqldump utility to do the actual backups.
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Posted in Software & Websites, Tutorials
Tagged backup, bash, mysql, mysqldump, script, terminal, Ubuntu
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