Question

Hello guys I’m trying to display a simple progress bar for the common user to understand easily at the moment I got this:

mysqldump --verbose -uusername -ppassword dbname > dbname$(date +.%d.%m.%y).sql

–verbose gives me a lot of information that I do understand but is there a way to show a progress bar that is much easier to read much like wget does: 0%====>====100% ? or similar to rsyncs –stats?

Answer 1

Well no, because mysqldump does not know how much data it is going to dump, hence it cannot put a percentage on how many was already completed.

You could write your own script that uses mysqldump and imitates a progress bar, updated for example after each database.

Example shell script:

databases=(`echo 'show databases;' | mysql | grep -v ^Database$`)
for i in "${databases[@]}";
do
    /usr/bin/mysqldump --add-drop-database --routines --triggers > ~/${i}.sql
    print ".";
done