Question
How to get long term backups for DigitalOcean's Managed Databases (MySQL)?
- Posted on September 20, 2020
- DigitalOcean Managed MySQL DatabaseDatabases
Asked by visarunas
The documentation for Managed Databases states backups are only held for a week. I want to keep longer term backups, but can’t make them manually without SSH access which Managed Databases don’t give. Is there a way to get long term backups for a MySQL Managed Database?
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Hi there @visarunas,
What I usually do is use a MySQL backup tool like mysqldump for example. It allows you to export your databases without SSH access.
To export a backup you could run the following command:
mysqldump -h your_database_hostname -u your_username -p your_database_name > your_database_name-$(date +%F).sql
You could also take a look at this tutorial here for more information.
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby
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