It's good practice to periodically backup up your database. This functionality is coming to Amahi soon, but until then there is a simple way to automatize it. This can be done using AutoMySQLBackup script.
Features
- Backup multiple MySQL databases with one script. (Now able to backup ALL databases on a server easily. no longer need to specify each database separately)
- Backup all databases to a single backup file or to a separate directory and file for each database.
- Automatically compress the backup files to save disk space using either gzip or bzip2 compression.
- Can backup remote MySQL servers to a central server.
- Runs automatically using cron or can be run manually.
- Can e-mail the backup log to any specified e-mail address instead of "root". (Great for hosted websites and databases).
- Can email the compressed database backup files to the specified email address.
- Can specify maximum size backup to email.
- Can be set to run PRE and POST backup commands.
- Choose which day of the week to run weekly backups.
What it does
- Every day it will run mysqldump and gzip will dump your specified databases to the /var/hda/files/dbbackup/daily directory, it will rotate daily backups weekly so you should never have more than 7 backups in there.
- Every Saturday it will again backup the databases you have chosen but they will be placed into /var/hda/files/dbbackup/weekly, these will be rotated every 5 weeks so there should never be more than 5 backups in there.
- Every 1st of the month it will create a backup of all databases and place them into /var/hda/files/dbbackup/monthly. These will never be rotated so it will be up to you to do your own house keeping. I would suggest taking a copy of this offline every month or two so that if you have a hard drive failure you will be able to restore your database.
How to Install
- Create a share called dbbackup.
- Download the script to /tmp directory.
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cd /tmp wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/automysqlbackup/AutoMySQLBackup/AutoMySQLBackup%20VER%202.5/automysqlbackup-2.5.1-01.sh
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- Some changes will need to be made for this to work on your HDA. As root user, update lines indicated in automysqlbackup-2.5.1-01.sh to read as follows:
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Line 39: '''USERNAME=root''' Line 42: '''PASSWORD=hda''' Line 51: '''BACKUPDIR="/var/hda/files/dbbackup'''" Line 65: '''MAILADDR="root"''' Line 76: '''DBEXCLUDE="information_schema"''' Line 79: '''CREATE_DATABASE=yes''' Line 94: '''LATEST=yes'''
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- Rename and copy the automysqlbackup-2.5.1-01.sh from /tmp to /usr/bin and set the permissions:
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cd /usr/bin cp /tmp/automysqlbackup-2.5.1-01.sh automysqlbackup chmod 755 automysqlbackup
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- Set automysqlbackup as a daily cron job (Optional):
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cd /etc/cron.daily ln -s /usr/bin/automysqlbackup
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Tips
- To change day of week (1=Monday thru 7=Sunday; defaults to 6=Saturday) for backup, update the number on the following line in automysqlbackup as root user:
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Line 85: '''DOWEEKLY=6'''
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- To run anytime, as root do the following:
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automysqlbackup
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- This script is well documented. Options can be easily customized to meet your specific HDA requirements. The guidance can be found in the automysqlbackup, starting at line 110.
NOTE: When it's run the first time, it will create the directory structure automatically if it does not already exist.
