Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases, Each Table In An Individual File And Upload To Remote FTP

Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases, Each Table In An Individual File And Upload To Remote FTP

This script will create a backup of each table in every database (one file per table), compress it and upload it to a remote ftp.

First create a mysql user with select and lock table privileges (or use root).

Then use this script in your crontab every hours:

#!/bin/sh
# System + MySQL backup script
# Copyright (c) 2008 Marchost
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------

#########################
######TO BE MODIFIED#####

### System Setup ###
BACKUP=YOUR_LOCAL_BACKUP_DIR

### MySQL Setup ###
MUSER="MYSQL_USER"
MPASS="MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD"
MHOST="localhost"

### FTP server Setup ###
FTPD="YOUR_FTP_BACKUP_DIR"
FTPU="YOUR_FTP_USER"
FTPP="YOUR_FTP_USER_PASSWORD"
FTPS="YOUR_FTP_SERVER_ADDRESS"

######DO NOT MAKE MODIFICATION BELOW#####
#########################################

### Binaries ###
TAR="$(which tar)"
GZIP="$(which gzip)"
FTP="$(which ftp)"
MYSQL="$(which mysql)"
MYSQLDUMP="$(which mysqldump)"

### Today + hour in 24h format ###
NOW=$(date +"%d%H")

### Create hourly dir ###

mkdir $BACKUP/$NOW

### Get all databases name ###
DBS="$($MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS -Bse 'show databases')"
for db in $DBS
do

### Create dir for each databases, backup tables in individual files ###
  mkdir $BACKUP/$NOW/$db

  for i in `echo "show tables" | $MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS $db|grep -v Tables_in_`;
  do
    FILE=$BACKUP/$NOW/$db/$i.sql.gz
    echo $i; $MYSQLDUMP --add-drop-table --allow-keywords -q -c -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS $db $i | $GZIP -9 > $FILE
  done
done

### Compress all tables in one nice file to upload ###

ARCHIVE=$BACKUP/$NOW.tar.gz
ARCHIVED=$BACKUP/$NOW

$TAR -cvf $ARCHIVE $ARCHIVED

### Dump backup using FTP ###
cd $BACKUP
DUMPFILE=$NOW.tar.gz
$FTP -n $FTPS <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $FTPU
quote PASS $FTPP
cd $FTPD
mput $DUMPFILE
quit
END_SCRIPT

### Delete the backup dir and keep archive ###

rm -rf $ARCHIVED