I just want to add a subdomain account and it needs a database. If I were going to install my phpmyadmin, is there any changes will happen to my existing database? please help me. i need your suggestion about this.

thank you..

I do all the things mentioned here to back up some sites I have at Westhost plus I also use a Perl script to email the tar.gz files to a mail box not at Westhost. Put all the shell commands in a shell script and execute it from a cron job. You have an automatic back up process.

The script I use is adapted from this:

http://lena.franken.de/perl_hier/sendingmail.html

At the minimum you will need to add a mime type:

$mime_filetype = “application/g-zip” if ( $sendfile_fn =~ /gz$/ );

For a person wanting to learn a little about linux commands and shell scripting, this could be a good starter project. The Westhost Community Forums are full of advice on how to do things like this.

It’s always nice to know how to do the backup yourself. I also agree that it would be ideal to have this done automatically and stored offsite. Currently there is no automatic backup solution that Westhost offers; however, we will have other backup solutions when we move to Westhost 4.0 in the following months. We currently do not have a date on when that will happen, but we are in alpha testing now.

i.e
- – all – databases
but without the spaces

the backtick is really a backtick (over the tab key)

1) for just the foobardatabase
mysqldump foobardatabase | gzip > foobardatabase`date “+%Y-%m-%d”`.sql.gz

2) or for all databases
mysqldump –all-databases | gzip > all`date “+%Y-%m-%d”`.sql.gz