mysqlhotcopy

I know all the questions I've been posting lately seem to be more mysql based than PHP based but this is the best forum I have found for these kinda questions and you all have a great deal of knowledge in this area.

alright, theres a command called mysqlhotcopy that I tried using but it keeps giving me errors in my shell script. Has anybody used this command and can you show me some syntax for it. What I have is...

mysqlhotcopy dbName /this/is/where/it/should/go;

and its giving me an error
//
Bareword found where operator expected at ./backitup.pl line 15, near "/home/sit
es"
(Missing operator before tes?)
syntax error at ./backitup.pl line 15, near "/this/is"
Execution of ./backitup.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
//

you are using perl to connect to mysql?

ummm yeah, thats what it said on mysql's site about it...

http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqlhotcopy.html

what does your perl code look like? is it locally?

also if you just want to make a backup of the database then use myPhpAdmin. very awesome program. it will backup your data and structure to a file called dbname.sql.

I have phpMyAdmin and I use it religiously. It's a very good program but I need this to be a nightly thing that doesn't need user interaction, it just goes through and does it. Does phpMyAdmin have an automated process for doing that?

//perl code
#!/usr/bin/perl

mysqlhotcopy visualwow /home/sites/home/users/admin/backupz;

exit(0);
__END__

but see from what I have read is that mysqlhotcopy has to be run from the shell, something like this

http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/a/Backup.html

hmm... you're right but the actual page that talks about mysqlhotcopy in detail...

http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqlhotcopy.html

the first line says is a perl script. I thought that meant that you just write a .pl file and run it. Maybe I'm misunderstanding this though... if its a perl script why would it run under shell only?