MySQL Automatic backup tools

Question

I use back-in-time for backuping up my projects automatically. but my Database is not backing up automatically. like, scheduling by day or hours. Is there any tool to back up MySQL automatically?

Answer 1

MySQL Admin has a backup tool with a (basic) scheduler to make backups on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. It is even included in Ubuntu: mysql-admin.

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My favourite way ofcourse is command line and I found a backup script on UF.

#!/bin/bash
#Script to make a regular copy of a mysql database and gzip it into the SAVEDIR.

USER="authorized_user"
PASSWORD="the_password"
DATABASE="database_name"
SAVEDIR="/backup"

/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u $USER --password=$PASSWORD --default-character-set=utf8 $DATABASE -c | /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /bin/gzip -9 > $SAVEDIR/$DATABASE-$(date '+%Y%m%d-%H').sql.gz

Edit the varibles, save it as .bkup.sh and run it in a crontab, then you have an automatic mysql backup. All the code for this script explained here. Kudos to kat_ams.

Answer 2

If you're on a server without a GUI, here's a package that will backup and rotate all of your MySQL databases daily by default.

sudo apt-get install automysqlbackup

That's it. The default configuration is sane so you're done unless you need something special. The backup files will be placed in /var/lib/automysqlbackup which you should rsync somewhere off-site.