MySQL Cron job

[carsey]

Im having a bit of trouble setting up my cron job. I want to back my database up every night. I have set up a cron job to do this, but the cron just simply doesnt work. Im sure all database details are correct.

Anyone any ideas how i can manage to backup automatically??

I have this code. mysqldump -umysusername -pmypassword carsey_articles | gzip > /home/carsey/mysql_backup.gz

[carsey]

anyone??