How to backup mysql database on hosting using php?

Question

PHP

What are the possibilities on the hosting to backup the database to a file?
You need a script to do a dump "on the fly"

Answer 1

exec('mysqldump --user=... --password=... --host=... DB_NAME > /path/to/output/file.sql');
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Answer 2

https://sypex.net/
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