Awesome information, thank you. Going through it right now; I'm also working on creating a registration page, with an invite code (possibly), rather than having to enter the user & password manually.
May have found somebody to GM for me, a trusted friend of 18 years who I actually met playing EQ, funny enough 18 years ago.
Edit: Created shell script & cron job:
script:
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#!/bin/sh
# EQ DB Backup
EQDBBACK="[path_to_backup_folder]"
# Deletes files older than 7 days may be changed later
find $EQDBBACK -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} +
mysqldump --defaults-extra-file=$HOME/.my.cnf [db_name] > $EQDBBACK/$(date '+%Y%m%d_%H-%M-%S')_full_[db_name].sql
# compress the file
7z a $EQDBBACK/$(date '+%Y%m%d_%H-%M-%S')_full_eqemu.7z $EQDBBACK/*full*.sql
# Remove the SQL file
rm -rf $EQDBBACK/*full*.sql
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$HOME/.my.cnf
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[mysqldump]
user=[db_username]
password=[super_secret_password]
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crontab -e, will run twice daily every 12 hours
# minute hour day_of_month month day_of_week (sunday=0)
Quote:
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0 */12 * * * [path_to_script]
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