Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases, Each Table In An Individual File And Upload To Remote FTP

This script will create a backup of each table in every database (one file per table), compress it and upload it to a remote ftp.
First create a mysql user with select and lock table privileges (or use root).
Then use this script in your crontab every hours:

#!/bin/sh
# System + MySQL backup script
# Copyright (c) 2008 Marchost
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
#########################
######TO BE MODIFIED#####
### System Setup ###
BACKUP=YOUR_LOCAL_BACKUP_DIR
### MySQL Setup ###
MUSER="MYSQL_USER"
MPASS="MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD"
MHOST="localhost"
### FTP server Setup ###
FTPD="YOUR_FTP_BACKUP_DIR"
FTPU="YOUR_FTP_USER"
FTPP="YOUR_FTP_USER_PASSWORD"
FTPS="YOUR_FTP_SERVER_ADDRESS"
######DO NOT MAKE MODIFICATION BELOW#####
#########################################
### Binaries ###
TAR="$(which tar)"
GZIP="$(which gzip)"
FTP="$(which ftp)"
MYSQL="$(which mysql)"
MYSQLDUMP="$(which mysqldump)"
### Today + hour in 24h format ###
NOW=$(date +"%d%H")
### Create hourly dir ###
mkdir $BACKUP/$NOW
### Get all databases name ###
DBS="$($MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS -Bse 'show databases')"
for db in $DBS
do
### Create dir for each databases, backup tables in individual files ###
mkdir $BACKUP/$NOW/$db
for i in `echo "show tables" $MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS $dbgrep -v Tables_in_`;
do
FILE=$BACKUP/$NOW/$db/$i.sql.gz
echo $i; $MYSQLDUMP --add-drop-table --allow-keywords -q -c -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS $db $i $GZIP -9 > $FILE
done
done
### Compress all tables in one nice file to upload ###
ARCHIVE=$BACKUP/$NOW.tar.gz
ARCHIVED=$BACKUP/$NOW
$TAR -cvf $ARCHIVE $ARCHIVED
### Dump backup using FTP ###
cd $BACKUP
DUMPFILE=$NOW.tar.gz
$FTP -n $FTPS <http://howtoforge.com/shell-script-to-back-up-all-mysql-databases-each-table-in-an-individual-file-and-upload-to-remote-ftp