This is just a short script to utilise the mysqldump utility. The reason I am posting this is to double check with you Monks that I haven't inadvertantly made any boo-boos. My last posting resulted in many good points being raised that I hadn't even considered, and I always get nervous when I use the system() call {shudder}. So any feedback (•s etc) most welcome. I remain all ears and again wish to thank you all for all that I have learned to date.

Update:

Thanks to podmaster for mentioning this, there is a security flaw in so much as a ps could be run showing the password. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Ideally should be called daily using cron

my $BAKDIR = '/path/to/bak/dir';
my @DBS = qw/foo bar baz/;
my $DBUSER = 'user';
my $DBPASS = 'password';
my $DAYS_TILL_UNLINK = '31';

# Error traps
unless (-e $BAKDIR) {
  mkdir ($BAKDIR, 0600) || die "Can't create $BAKDIR $!\n";
}
unless (-d $BAKDIR) {
  die "$BAKDIR is unavailable\n";
}

my ($day, $mon, $year) = (localtime(time))[3,4,5];
$mon += 1;
$year += 1900;
my $date = "$year.$mon.$day";

# Iterate through Dbs to be backed up
foreach my $db (@DBS) {
    my $cmd = "mysqldump $db -u$DBUSER -p$DBPASS > $BAKDIR/dump.$db.$d
+ate";
    system($cmd) == 0 || die "Can't dump $db: $!\n";
}

# Remove old backups if older than $DAYS_TILL_UNLINK
chdir "$BAKDIR" || warn "Can't change directory to $BAKDIR $!\n";
my $db;
$db = <dump.*>;
while ($db = <dump.*>) {
  if (-M $db > $DAYS_TILL_UNLINK) {
    unlink ("$db");
  }
}

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