diff --git a/simon/lib/SiMon/MySQL.pm b/simon/lib/SiMon/MySQL.pm
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+
+my $do_zip= 1;
+my $do_bup= 1;
+
+sub new
+{
+  my $class= shift;
+
+  my $self= {};
+  bless $self, $class;
+  $self->set(@_);
+  $self;
+}
+
+sub set
+{
+  my $self= shift;
+  my %par= @_;
+  foreach my $par (keys %par)
+  {
+    $self->{$par}= $par{$par};
+  }
+  $self;
+}
+
+sub mk_mysql_dump
+{
+  my $self= shift;
+  my $fnm= shift;
+  my @rest= @_;
+
+  my ($user, $pass, $db_name)= map { $self->{$_} or die } qw(user pass db);
+
+  $fnm= sprintf ('%s_%s.dump', $db_name, ts_ISO()) unless ($fnm);
+
+  print "saving to fnm=[$fnm]\n";
+  my @cmd1= ('/usr/bin/mysqldump', '-u', $user);
+  push (@cmd1, "--password=$pass");
+  # push (@cmd1, '-p', $pass); # does not work that way!
+  my $idx_p= $#cmd1;
+  push (@cmd1, @rest);
+  push (@cmd1, '-r', $fnm, $db_name);
+
+  my @cmd2= @cmd1;
+  $cmd2[$idx_p]= "--password='xxxx'";
+  # $cmd2[$idx_p]= 'xxxx';
+
+  print "cmd: [", join (' ', @cmd2), "]\n";
+
+  if ($do_bup)
+  {
+    system (@cmd1);
+    print "\n\n";
+    system ('gzip', '-v', $fnm) if ($do_zip);
+  }
+}
+
+sub ts_ISO
+{
+  my $t= shift || time ();
+
+  my @t= localtime ($t);
+
+  sprintf ("%4d-%02d-%02dT%02d%02d%02d", $t[5]+1900, $t[4]+1, $t[3], $t[2], $t[1], $t[0]);
+}
+
+1;
+