Date separated MySQL backups

Dan Sosedoff — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:04:59 +0000

Here is the bash shell script that makes archived dumps of your database server. All databases are separated from each other and stored into date based folders.

#!/bin/bash

MyUSER="root"
MyPASS=""
MyHOST="localhost"
NOW="$(date +"%d-%m-%Y")"
STOREDIR="/home/storage/backup/database/by_dates/$NOW"
DBLIST="$(mysql -u $MyUSER -h $MyHOST -Bse 'show databases')"

[ ! -d $STOREDIR ] && mkdir -p $STOREDIR || :

for db in $DBLIST
do
	FILE="$STOREDIR/$db.gz"
	mysqldump -u $MyUSER -h $MyHOST $db | gzip -9 > $FILE
done

Simple MySQL backup script

Dan Sosedoff — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:02:33 +0000

There is a small useful ruby script to backup your MySQL databases in small projects, where speed of backup not so important.
Source:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# MySQL Backup Utility
# Usage: ./mysql_backup.rb or ruby mysql_backup.rb
 
$backup_archive = true # gzip files after processing
$backup_dir = "/home/storage/backup/" # output directory
$backup_template = "project-%s-%s.sql" # text-%dbname-%timestamp.sql
$backup_cmd = "mysqldump -u local_backup --add-drop-table --databases %s > %s"
$backup_dblist = [ # list of databases to backup
  'main',
  'users',
  'admin',
  'cards'
] 
 
def backup_database(database)
  time = Time.now()
  time_str = sprintf("%02i-%02i-%04i-%02i%02i%02i",time.day, time.month, time.year, time.hour, time.min, time.sec)
  filename = sprintf($backup_template,database,time_str)
  filename = "#{$backup_dir}#{filename}"
 
  cmd = sprintf($backup_cmd,database,filename)
  if system(cmd) then
    system("gzip --best #{filename}") if $backup_archive
  end
end
 
$backup_dblist.each do |db|
  puts "Processing database... #{db}"
  backup_database(db)
end

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Date separated MySQL backups

Simple MySQL backup script