You could run a shell script a little like this, to backup your databases to the filesystem and then rsync them!
#!/bin/bash
MYSQL_DIR=”/var/lib/mysql”
MYSQL_DUMPS=”/archives”
DB_ACCOUNT=”root”
DB_PASSWORD=”password”
echo “Dumping databases”
for i in $(find ${MYSQL_DIR} -type d -exec basename {} \
do
case ${i} in
test | mysql )
echo “Skipping database: ${i}”
;;
* )
echo “Dumping database: ${i} @ $(date)”
mysqldump -u${DB_ACCOUNT} -p${DB_PASSWORD} –quick ${i} > ${MYSQL_DUMPS}/$(date +%y%m%d).${i}.sql
echo “Compressing dump of ${i} @ $(date)”
gzip ${MYSQL_DUMPS}/$(date +%y%m%d).${i}.sql
;;
esac
done
echo “Completed @ $(date)”