Hello,
The following shell/bash script will help you in taking backup of databases starting with prefix.
#!/bin/bash #Script for mysql database backup cd /var/lib/mysql #Path to mysql folder I am using default path here for DBs in $(ls -d */ |grep dbprefix_ | tr -d /) do cd /mysqlbackup `mysqldump -u root -p'password' $DBs > $DBs.sql` done