Morning Monks, A while back i came here looking for a Mysql backup script and this worked our wonders for a starting point, thanks to penguinfuz at wonderwaylabs dot com. Now Its working exactly the way i want it to on a local machine but there is a catch. I have a remote host running the databases and i want to carry out daily dumps. This is a sample mysqldump script i use to do this manually:  mysqldump --opt --skip-add-drop table --no create-info -u root --p xxxx db_name --tables table_name --where "dateformat(TimeStamp,'%y-%m-%d') = '2008-07-01'"> daily_backup.sql Now in the ideal scenario i want to have this perl script implement DateTime(or any favorable Module) to auto increment the date, ie from 01 to 02 etc etc running as a cron job every day. Any help will be highly appreciated. Cheers

In reply to Mysql backup using DateTime by h3x

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