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Hello, this is the anacrontab i use to save my db:
Code:

1@daily 0 mysql_backup mkdir -p /srv/data/home/mysql_backup ; mysqldump -u root --all-databases | /bin/gzip -9 > /srv/data/home/mysql_backup/`date '+%F'`.databases.sql.gz ; find /srv/data/home/mysql_backup -name '*.databases.sql.gz' -mtime +7 -delete

I get error because there is no password indicated in the crontab
Code:

2024-07-07T00:05:47 mysql_backup: mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using...

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