About

This is a small script I created to backup my MySQL database. My hoster offers a free online storage service for VPS customers called "Stack". Stack has 1TB of storage! You can also access Stack via Webdav. That's why I created a script that dumps all my databbases, gzips them and uploads them via webdav to Stack.

Why Perl?

This script could of course have been written using only bash. However I find the syntax of bash confusing and I don't like to constantly pipe variables and command outputs to eachother. I wanted to use a proper programming language. I have a dislike for Python and I have never written a Perl program before, so I thougth this would be a fun learning expierence.

How to use

(I take no responsibility if you use my script and something goes wrong)

1. Make sure you have all modules installed
2. Rename config.sample.yaml to config.yaml
3. Fill out config.yaml with your information
4. Create a cron or run backup.pl

Required CPAN libraries

• YAML::XS
• DBI
• DBD::mysql