Linux shell script for database backup

Question

I tried many scripts for database backup but I couldn\'t make it. I want to backup my database every hour.
I added files to \"/etc/cron.hourly/\" folder, changed its chm

Answer 1

After hours and hours work, I created a solution like the below. I copy paste for other people that can benefit.

First create a script file and give this file executable permission.

# cd /etc/cron.daily/
# touch /etc/cron.daily/dbbackup-daily.sh
# chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/dbbackup-daily.sh
# vi /etc/cron.daily/dbbackup-daily.sh

Then copy following lines into file with Shift+Ins

#!/bin/sh
now="$(date +'%d_%m_%Y_%H_%M_%S')"
filename="db_backup_$now".gz
backupfolder="/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/backups"
fullpathbackupfile="$backupfolder/$filename"
logfile="$backupfolder/"backup_log_"$(date +'%Y_%m')".txt
echo "mysqldump started at $(date +'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S')" >> "$logfile"
mysqldump --user=mydbuser --password=mypass --default-character-set=utf8 mydatabase | gzip > "$fullpathbackupfile"
echo "mysqldump finished at $(date +'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S')" >> "$logfile"
chown myuser "$fullpathbackupfile"
chown myuser "$logfile"
echo "file permission changed" >> "$logfile"
find "$backupfolder" -name db_backup_* -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \;
echo "old files deleted" >> "$logfile"
echo "operation finished at $(date +'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S')" >> "$logfile"
echo "*****************" >> "$logfile"
exit 0

Edit:
If you use InnoDB and backup takes too much time, you can add "single-transaction" argument to prevent locking. So mysqldump line will be like this:

mysqldump --user=mydbuser --password=mypass --default-character-set=utf8
          --single-transaction mydatabase | gzip > "$fullpathbackupfile"

Answer 2

As a DBA, You must schedule the backup of MySQL Database in case of any issues so that you can recover your databases from the current backup.

Here, we are using mysqldump to take the backup of mysql databases and the same you can put into the script.

[orahow@oradbdb DB_Backup]$ cat .backup_script.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Database credentials
user="root"
password="1Loginxx"
db_name="orahowdb"
v_cnt=0
logfile_path=/DB_Backup
touch "$logfile_path/orahowdb_backup.log"
# Other options
backup_path="/DB_Backup"
date=$(date +"%d-%b-%Y-%H-%M-%p")
# Set default file permissions

Continue Reading .... MySQL Backup

Answer 3

I got the same issue. But I manage to write a script. Hope this would help.

#!/bin/bash
# Database credentials
user="username"
password="password"
host="localhost"
db_name="dbname"
# Other options
backup_path="/DB/DB_Backup"
date=$(date +"%d-%b-%Y")
# Set default file permissions
umask 177
# Dump database into SQL file
mysqldump --user=$user --password=$password --host=$host $db_name >$backup_path/$db_name-$date.sql

# Delete files older than 30 days
find $backup_path/* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;


#DB backup log
echo -e "$(date +'%d-%b-%y  %r '):ALERT:Database has been Backuped"    >>/var/log/DB_Backup.log

Answer 4

Now, copy the following content in a script file (like: /backup/mysql-backup.sh) and save on your Linux system.

    #!/bin/bash

    export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
    TODAY=`date +"%d%b%Y"`

    DB_BACKUP_PATH='/backup/dbbackup'
    MYSQL_HOST='localhost'
    MYSQL_PORT='3306'
    MYSQL_USER='root'
    MYSQL_PASSWORD='mysecret'
    DATABASE_NAME='mydb'
    BACKUP_RETAIN_DAYS=30   

    mkdir -p ${DB_BACKUP_PATH}/${TODAY}
    echo "Backup started for database - ${DATABASE_NAME}"

    mysqldump -h ${MYSQL_HOST} \
   -P ${MYSQL_PORT} \
   -u ${MYSQL_USER} \
   -p${MYSQL_PASSWORD} \
   ${DATABASE_NAME} | gzip > ${DB_BACKUP_PATH}/${TODAY}/${DATABASE_NAME}-${TODAY}.sql.gz

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Database backup successfully completed"
else
  echo "Error found during backup"
  exit 1
fi


##### Remove backups older than {BACKUP_RETAIN_DAYS} days  #####

DBDELDATE=`date +"%d%b%Y" --date="${BACKUP_RETAIN_DAYS} days ago"`

if [ ! -z ${DB_BACKUP_PATH} ]; then
      cd ${DB_BACKUP_PATH}
      if [ ! -z ${DBDELDATE} ] && [ -d ${DBDELDATE} ]; then
            rm -rf ${DBDELDATE}
      fi
fi

After creating or downloading script make sure to set execute permission to run properly.

$ chmod +x /backup/mysql-backup.sh

Edit crontab on your system with crontab -e command. Add following settings to enable backup at 3 in the morning.

0 3 * * * root /backup/mysql-backup.sh

Answer 5

#!/bin/sh
#Procedures = For DB Backup
#Scheduled at : Every Day 22:00

v_path=/etc/database_jobs/db_backup
logfile_path=/etc/database_jobs
v_file_name=DB_Production
v_cnt=0

MAILTO="abc@as.in"
touch "$logfile_path/kaka_db_log.log"

#DB Backup
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword -h111.111.111.111 ddbname > $v_path/$v_file_name`date +%Y-%m-%d`.sql 
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]
  then
   v_cnt=`expr $v_cnt + 1`
  mail -s "DB Backup has been done successfully" $MAILTO < $logfile_path/db_log.log
 else
   mail -s "Alert : kaka DB Backup has been failed" $MAILTO < $logfile_path/db_log.log
   exit
fi

Answer 6

You might consider this Open Source tool, matiri, https://github.com/AAFC-MBB/matiri which is a concurrent mysql backup script with metadata in Sqlite3. Features:

• Multi-Server: Multiple MySQL servers are supported whether they are co-located on the same or separate physical servers.
• Parallel: Each database on the server to be backed up is done separately, in parallel (concurrency settable: default: 3)
• Compressed: Each database backup compressed
• Checksummed: SHA256 of each compressed backup file stored and the archive of all files
• Archived: All database backups tar'ed together into single file
• Recorded: Backup information stored in Sqlite3 database

Full disclosure: original matiri author.