Backing up MySQL

av@avlux.net (Andrew) — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:30:00 -0500

Back in the day of MyISAM, restoring a MySQL database was as simple as copying files from your backup. No more is this the case with InnoDB. Therefore it is imperative that a good backup strategy includes doing MySQL dumps, comme ca:

# Dump Mysql DBs before backups
user=admin
pass=adminpass
destdir=/var/lib/mysql_dumps

ls -1 /var/lib/mysql | while read db;
do
 /bin/nice -n 19 mysqldump -u admin --password=$pass $db > $destdir/$db.sql;
done

This is script is incorporated into AVLUX daily backups.

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