python backup script

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Thanks Matt. 
my.cnf is a readonly file and cannot be changed or modified but do you know of a file that stores similar information on CentOS?I think I'm not reading from a right file maybe.

On Monday, May 6, 2013 3:46:04 PM UTC-4, Matt Jones wrote:
> I've never used ConfigParser either, but shouldn't the "[client]" section have the options "mmz", "pass1", or "localhost" somewhere?  Do you need to add them to that file?
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> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:20 PM, MMZ <programme... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Monday, May 6, 2013 3:11:33 PM UTC-4, Jerry Hill wrote:
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> > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:01 PM, MMZ <programme... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I am trying to backup database on CentOS linux server,I'm getting error when running the following script. anyone can help?
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> >   File "./backup.py", line 8, in ?
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> >     username = config.get('client', 'mmz')
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> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 511, in get
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> > error message looks pretty simple to interpret.  You've set up a ConfigParser object, told it to read in ~/my.cnf, the asked for the value of section 'client', option 'mmz'.  The error indicates that your config files doesn't have a section named 'client'.
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> > What is the content of your ~/my.cnf file?
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> Thank you for helping Jerry. Actually I found this script for debian but I want to use it for CentOS server so I replaced /etc/mysql/debian.cnf with ~/my.cnf
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> the file content is:
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>  Example MySQL config file for medium systems.
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> # This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
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> # an important part, or systems up to 128M where MySQL is used together with
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> # other programs (such as a web server)
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> #
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> # MySQL programs look for option files in a set of
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> # locations which depend on the deployment platform.
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> # You can copy this option file to one of those
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> # locations. For information about these locations, see:
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> # http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/option-files.html
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> #
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> # In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
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> # If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
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> # with the "--help" option.
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> # The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
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> [client]
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> #password       = your_password
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> port            = 3306
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> socket          = /tmp/mysql.sock
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> # Here follows entries for some specific programs
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> # The MySQL server
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> [mysqld]
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> port            = 3306
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> socket          = /tmp/mysql.sock
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> skip-locking
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> key_buffer_size = 16M
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> max_allowed_packet = 1M
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> table_open_cache = 64
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> sort_buffer_size = 512K
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> net_buffer_length = 8K
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> read_buffer_size = 256K
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> read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
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> myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
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> # Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,
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> # if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
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> # All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.
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> # Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
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> # (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
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> #skip-networking
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> # Replication Master Server (default)
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> # binary logging is required for replication
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> log-bin=mysql-bin
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> # binary logging format - mixed recommended
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> binlog_format=mixed
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> # required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
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> # defaults to 1 if master-host is not set
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> # but will not function as a master if omitted
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> server-id       = 1
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