Question

I have a tar.gz with a full mysql database update that I can access via ftp.

This tar.gz updates daily and I would like to create a php and/or mysql connection to that ftp account that would allow me to run that large sql query on my local mysql server.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

(I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you want to do this from a unix box of some kind…)

Throw this:

#!/bin/bash  wget                        \     -O -                    \     --ftp-user=username     \     --ftp-password=password \     'ftp://wherever/whatever.tar.gz' | tar xzOf - | mysql --user=whoever --password=secret dbname 

in a file (update-db.sh for example) then chmod it:

chmod 755 update-db.sh 

then you can just:

./update-db.sh 

whenever you want to download the update. Or you can throw it into a cron job (man crontab).

Edit: Added the O flag to tar so that it extracts to stdout.