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Asked: 2026-05-21T10:37:54+00:00

If someone could not understand what exactly i’m trying to do, here it goes….

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If someone could not understand what exactly i’m trying to do, here it goes….
I use amazon cloud server, so i want to backup my database with a python script, hopefully i’ve got it working from command line…..

When i do a backup, it should run mysqldump on amazon server and save it into amazon server itself!! /home/abhilash/dumps/

So how do i use this command in python?? I’m new to python and trying this for a while…

mysqldump -h 50.12.xx.xx nameofdb -u root -p |gzip -9 | ssh abhilash@50.12.xx.xx "gzip -d>/home/abhilash/a.dump"

I want to use the above command in python, whats the easiest way?? thanks!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Maybe you should take a look at fabric

    It may be overkill for a single command, but as soon as your deployment/backup tasks become complex, it will surely pay off.

    Fabric is a Python (2.5 or higher) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

    There are a lot of good example fabfiles to learn from on github.

    To use fabric in conjunction with mysqldump see these blog posts:

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