The following bash script will open a socks tunnel with a remote host and use a local mysqldump cli tool to backup a mysql database. #!/bin/sh DT=$(date ‘+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S’) SUFFIX= FILENAME=$DT$SUFFIX BACKUPSPATH= USER= IP= PORT= DBUSER= DBPASS= DBNAME= echo “Opening socks tunnel to $IP” echo “Writing $FILENAME” ssh -f -L $PORT:127.0.0.1:$PORT $USER@$IP sleep 10; \ mysqldump… Continue reading Backup mysql database via socks tunnel