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MySQL backup script using mysqlhotcopy / gzip / incremental backups

Asked by cmercado_miranda in MySQL Server, Backup Exec, Bourne-Again Shell (bash)

Tags: MySQL, MySQL Server, Database backups using mysqlhotcopy

Hello,

Currently I have this shell script to backup my databases using mysqlhotcopy and saving 4 previous copies of the backup. The script is working fine and it does the work well. The Only thing I need to add is that instead of creating just the folder of the backup db, it also compress those created folders in a separate gzip files, so that way I can send it via FTP to another serve more easily than transferring all the db file contents.

So basically is change this script to instead of creating the folders like this:
testdb.1
testdb.2
testdb.3
testdb.4

it creates something like
testdb.1.tar.gz
testdb.2.tar.gz
testdb.3.tar.gz
testdb.4.tar.gz

and so on....

That's basically it...

Attached is the code...

Thanks
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             #!/bin/sh
 
# List of databases to be backed up separated by space
dblist="testdb testdb2 testdb3"
 
# Directory for backups
backupdir=/home/mysql/backup
 
# Number of versions to keep
numversions=4
 
# Full path for MySQL hotcopy command
hotcopycmd=/usr/bin/mysqlhotcopy
 
# MySQL Username and password
userpassword=" --user=root --password=password"
 
# Create directory if needed
mkdir -p ${backupdir}
if [ ! -d ${backupdir} ] 
then
	echo "Invalid directory: ${backupdir}"
exit 1
fi
 
# Hotcopy begins here
echo "Hotcopying MySQL Databases..."
RC=0
for database in $dblist
do
	echo "Hotcopying $database ..."
	$hotcopycmd $userpassword $database ${backupdir}
	RC=$?
	if [ $RC -gt 0 ]
	then
		break;
	fi
 
	# Rollover the backup directories
	i=$numversions
	mv ${backupdir}/${database} ${backupdir}/${database}.0 2> /dev/null
	rm -fr ${backupdir}/${database}.$i 2> /dev/null
	while [ $i -gt 0 ]
	do
		 mv ${backupdir}/${database}.`expr $i - 1` ${backupdir}/${database}.$i 2> /dev/null
		 i=`expr $i - 1`
	done
done
 
if [ $RC -gt 0 ]
then
	echo "MySQL Hotcopy failed!"
	exit $RC 
else
	# Hotcopy is complete. List the backup versions!
	ls -l ${backupdir}
	echo "MySQL Hotcopy is complete!"
fi
exit 0

           
         

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MySQL backup script using mysqlhotcopy / gzip / incremental backups

Asked by cmercado_miranda in MySQL Server, Backup Exec, Bourne-Again Shell (bash)

Tags: MySQL, MySQL Server, Database backups using mysqlhotcopy

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