mysql_utils for Debian or Other OS

Backup and Restore data from MySql tables

Install

$ cd ~
$ git clone https://github.com/Mirocow/mysql_utils.git
$ cd mysql_utils

nano /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

[mysqld]
secure-file-priv = ""

nano /lib/systemd/system/mysql.service

[Service]
PrivateTmp=false

$ systemctl daemon-reload

Backup all databases

$ cd ~
$ cd mysql_utils
$ bash backup.sh

Backup selected database

$ cd ~
$ cd mysql_utils
$ bash backup_db.sh <[database-name]>

Restore for selected date

$ cd /var/backups/mysql/[some date]
$ bash ~/mysql_utils/restore.sh

Restore selected DB

$ cd /var/backups/mysql/[some date]/[some db name]
$ bash ~/mysql_utils/restore_db.sh

Automation backup with Cron

nano /etc/default/db_backup

    START=yes

nano /etc/cron.daily/db_backup

    #!/bin/sh

    . /etc/default/db_backup

    if [ "$START" = "yes" ]; then
    	logger "Start databases backup system..."
    	/bin/bash /root/scripts/mysql_utils/backup.sh --e="some_exclude_database some_else_db"
    fi

Check work

    # tail -f /var/log/syslog
        May 23 12:25:34 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** Dump tecdoc.2013.ALI_COORD
        May 23 12:25:35 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** set permision to tecdoc.2013/AL
        May 23 12:25:35 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** bzip2 tecdoc.2013/ALI_COOR
        May 23 12:25:35 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** Dump tecdoc.2013.ARTICLES
        May 23 12:25:43 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** set permision to tecdoc.2013/AR
        May 23 12:25:43 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** bzip2 tecdoc.2013/ARTICLES
        May 23 12:25:43 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** Dump tecdoc.2013.ARTICLES_
        May 23 12:25:43 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** set permision to tecdoc.2013/AR
        May 23 12:25:43 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** bzip2 tecdoc.2013/ARTICLES
        May 23 12:25:43 db1 logger: BACKUP:   ** Dump tecdoc.2013.ARTICLE_C

Tested on

• Debiad
• FreeBsd
• Ubuntu

Help

# bash backup.sh --help
usage: backup.sh options

This script buckup all databases.

Usage: backup.sh <[options]>

Options:
   -e= | --exclude=                     Exclude databases
   --exclude-tables=                    Exclude tables
   -c= | --compress=                    Compress with gzip or bzip2
   -v  | --verbose                      Add verbose into output
   -l  | --lifetime=                    Lifetime for dump files
   --config=                            Config file of Debian format
   --dir=                               Backup directory
   -h  | --help                         This text

Examples:
        backup.sh --verbose --compress=
        backup.sh --verbose --compress=gzip
        backup.sh --verbose --compress=bzip2
        backup.sh --verbose --compress= --exclude="mysql"
        backup.sh --verbose --compress= --exclude="mysql" --lifetime="3 day ago"
        backup.sh --verbose --config="/etc/mysql/debian.cnf" --exclude="mysql" --lifetime="1 day ago"
        backup.sh --verbose --dir="/var/backups/mysql" --config="/etc/mysql/debian.cnf" --exclude="mysql" --lifetime="1 day ago"
        backup.sh --verbose --dir="/home/backups/mysql" --exclude="mysql" --lifetime="1 day ago"
        backup.sh --verbose --dir="/home/backups/mysql" --exclude="mysql" --exclude-tables="tbl_template" --lifetime="1 day ago"

Errors

• The MySQL server is running with the --secure-file-priv option so it cannot execute this statement when executing 'SELECT INTO OUTFILE

[mysqld]
secure-file-priv = ""