Crontab and mysqldump

[thebtp]

I have made a crontab task to make a copy of all the databases on my system.
It works fine when running it via SSH but gives a different output when running it via a crontab task. When i schedule it; it outputs the help information into a file rather then the SQL/databases them self

[papetova]

What does the crontab entry look like and what do you have in the script to dump the data?

[kbensch]

Hi

I use automysqlbackup

search for it on sourceforge.net

its brilliant

[thebtp]

My Crontab command was :

mysqldump -u myusername -p mypassword --all-databases > ../root/btpbackup/07/october/db_export.sql

Chris.