Backup your Mysql databases installed on windows with a batch file and task scheduler

If you have mysql running on windows platform for example for development/testing purposes, you are probably encountered the backing up issue
here are small bat file that can help you.

First of all you will need 7-zip for archiving SQL dumps, you can download it and use for free, from here

Then

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