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Step 1. Disable password prompt for "mysqldump command" mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) when trying to connect 1. Run " vi ~/.my.cnf " 2. Add the following lines [ mysqldump ] user = mysqluser password = secret 3. For Bitnami, you'll need to append the following line in " /opt/bitnami/mysql/my.cnf " !include ~/.my.cnf 4. Try running to see if the command works. mysqldump --all-databases > /home/bitnami/backups/db-backup.sql Step 2(a). Install Azure-CLI Prerequisites: Installing npm. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs sudo apt-get install npm Note: If you facing issue while installing nodejs/npm on Ubuntu 12.04, you can refer to his article for alternative way to install  https://rtcamp.com/tutorials/nodejs/node-js-npm-install-ubuntu/ , or this  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16302436/install-nodejs-on-ubuntu-12-10#comment32...

Step 1. Disable password prompt for "mysqldump command" mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) when trying to connect 1. Run " vi ~/.my.cnf " 2. Add the following lines [ mysqldump ] user = mysqluser password = secret 3. For Bitnami, you'll need to append the following line in " /opt/bitnami/mysql/my.cnf " !include ~/.my.cnf 4. Try running to see if the command works. mysqldump --all-databases > /home/bitnami/backups/db-backup.sql Step 2. Setup Cron to Backup to MySQL Lets setup cron to run at 00:00, every midnight. Option 1: For manual insert into crontab file via " crontab -e " command 0 0 * * * /opt/bitnami/mysql/bin/mysqldump --all-databases | gzip > /home/bitnami/backups/db-$(date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M\%S).sql.gz Note that you'll need to escape the "%" characters, because cron will see it as end character and ignore ...