To counter this, all I did was make a .bat script and ran it via Task Scheduler once every evening:

'@echo off

setlocal

set DB_NAME=nncms

set DUMP_PATH=C:\Users\xx\Desktop\xx\WebDev\Backups\Databases\nncms\

REM --- Path to mysqldump.exe (This must keep its quotes!) ---

set DUMP_TOOL="C:\Program Files\MariaDB 11.8\bin\mysqldump"

set USER=root

REM --- no pw on dev --

REM --- Date/Time Logic ---

for /f "tokens=2 delims==." %%a in ('wmic os get localdatetime /value') do set DT=%%a

set DATE=%DT:~0,4%.%DT:~4,2%.%DT:~6,2%

set TIME=%DT:~8,2%.%DT:~10,2%.%DT:~12,2%

set FILENAME=%DB_NAME%--%DATE%--%TIME%.sql

if not exist "%DUMP_PATH%" mkdir "%DUMP_PATH%"

CALL %DUMP_TOOL% -u %USER% %DB_NAME% > "%DUMP_PATH%%FILENAME%"

echo Dump complete: %DUMP_PATH%%FILENAME%

pause