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+<?php
+
+namespace A2nt\CMSNiceties\Tasks;
+
+use SilverStripe\Assets\File;
+use SilverStripe\Dev\BuildTask;
+use SilverStripe\ORM\DB;
+
+class DumpMySQL extends BuildTask
+{
+    protected $title = 'Dump MySQL Task';
+    protected $description = 'Create MySQL dump';
+    protected $enabled = true;
+
+    public function run($request)
+    {
+        $cfg = DB::getConfig();
+
+        ob_clean();
+
+        header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="backup-'.date('d-m-Y').'.sql"');
+        passthru('mysqldump -u '.$cfg['username'].' --password="'.$cfg['password'].'" '.$cfg['database']);
+
+        exit(0);
+    }
+}