Question

I am trying to make a shell script that creates a mysql dump and then puts it on another computer. I have already set up keyless ssh and sftp. They script below creates the mysql dump file on the local computer when it is run and doesn’t throw any errors, however the file “dbdump.db” is never put on the remote computer. If I execute the sftp connection and put command by hand then it works.

contents of mysql_backup.sh

mysqldump --all-databases --master-data > dbdump.db
sftp -b /home/tim tim@100.10.10.1 <<EOF
put dbdump.db
exit
EOF

Answer 1

Try to use scp that should be easier in your case.

scp dbdump.db tim@100.10.10.1:/home/tim/dbdump.db

Both sftp and scp are using SSH.