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(I'm not a big Redhat fan so have written this for my own memory in case I need to do this elsewhere)

First obviously we need a cron job to do the database backup. This page explains a bit about how cron is set up on RedHat but it's pretty standard. /etc/crontab shows that scripts in cron.daily get run at 4:02 AM via run-parts which has a loop like this:

for i in $1/*[^~,] ; do 
...

so it should run after logrotate as long as it follows alphabetically. (I wonder why redhat doesn't use numbers to set the order of the existing scripts, like 05-logrotate for example.) I want to back up the previous day's backup file first and then write a new one.

/etc/cron.daily/wikidb:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/mysqldump -a wikidb > /root/backups/wikidb.sql

/etc/cron.daily contains a logrotate script, so it gets run daily. So we can just create /etc/logrotate.d/wikidb:

/root/backups/wikidb.sql {
        compress
        daily
        olddir /root/backups/old
        rotate 14
}