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I am making script to backup users home directories and databases. i can make backup by going through dirs but i am not able to find a way to gets databases belong to particular user

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Databases don't belong to users in MySQL. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 21 '11 at 15:45
Are you talking about Linux users or MySQL users? Are you backing up in SQL format or hot-copying the database dirs? – Benjamin Morel May 21 '11 at 15:46
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Are the database usernames the same as the home directories? – mhitza May 21 '11 at 15:48
yes db users same as home dirs and DB names start with username_something – Mirror51 May 21 '11 at 15:53

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If you plan to use mysqldump, which doesn't support wildcards in database names AFAIK, you could first from your Python script issue a SHOW DATABASES query, which will return all database names.

Then group them by user name, and call mysqldump with the --databases option based on the result of your script.

There may be simpler, turnkey solutions however.

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