[mysqldump]
user="root"
password=""

/opt/lampp/bin/mysqldump --defaults-file=/home/user/.my.cnf -u root -h localhost  database_name

* *   * * *   root    sh /home/user/mysqldump.sh | gzip -9 > /home/user/database/backup_$(date +%Y%m%d).sql.gz

(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)