I’m a backup fanatic and not having a few backups of files makes me uneasy. Today I had a little scare where I couldn’t find a few of my databases when viewing PHPmyAdmin through MAMP. Turns out sometimes MAMP likes to sometimes grab the databases from the MAMP Pro location and sometimes the MAMP location.
So, I decided it was time to figure out how to automatically backup my databases. The problem is that my MySQL databases are not in the same folder as my Dropbox folder.
The answer to this is very simple! First, if you haven’t already, sign up for dropbox. Then we just need to create a simple symlink that will allow the databases to be stored in their location and still be backed up to the DropBox folder.
