Howto: mysqldump cron on godaddy

Question

I have a godaddy hosting account (shared hosting). On it I have a MySql database that I want to backup to a file daily. (Which I will later download for off-server backup).

I have set up the following command in my cron file (ran daily):

mysqldump -–opt -Q -h [myhost] -u myusername -–password=***** ebooklibrary > /fullpath.../_db_backups/openelibrary.sql

The database name is ebooklibrary.

I am constantly getting this error:

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'myusername'@'97.74.144.139' (using password: NO) when trying to connect

How can I fix this, or do it properly, so that mysqldump will run daily?

Thanks.

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Using the shell, the following command worked:

 mysql -h myhost -u myusername -p"*****" ebooklibrary

Answer 1

I believe the matter is with how you specify the password. Try

mysqldump –opt -Q -h [myhost] -u myusername –p"*****" ebooklibrary > /fullpath.../_db_backups/openelibrary.sql

Answer 2

When specifying a password on the command line, you need to use

--password="xxx"

rather than

-password="xxx"

Note the double dash on the first command.

EDIT: Do you know if the DB server is the same server as the web server? If so, have you tried omitting the host? With that thought, have you also tried --host=127.0.0.1 (Just tried that on my machine - it seems very anal about the correct host name)