Here’s a short python script I must have knocked up some time ago – and totally forgotten – hopefully it’ll be of some use to others….
Purpose: backup all MySQL databases, one in each file with a timestamp on the end. You’ll probably want to have a secondary cron job which does something like :
find /backups/mysql -mtime +5 -print | xargs -r rm
to delete old copies… changing +5 to how ever many days history you wish to have.
Method: Read /etc/mysql/debian.cnf to get login details for MySQL, connect to MySQL and ask it for a list of all databases, go through this list calling mysqldump on each one.
Code:
(Last updated: 2012/10/10 – skip trying to backup the performance_schema).
#!/usr/bin/env python
import ConfigParser
import os
import time
# On Debian, /etc/mysql/debian.cnf contains 'root' a like login and password.
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read("/etc/mysql/debian.cnf")
username = config.get('client', 'user')
password = config.get('client', 'password')
hostname = config.get('client', 'host')
filestamp = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
# Get a list of databases with :
database_list_command="mysql -u %s -p%s -h %s --silent -N -e 'show databases'" % (username, password, hostname)
for database in os.popen(database_list_command).readlines():
database = database.strip()
if database == 'information_schema':
continue
if database == 'performance_schema':
continue
filename = "/backups/mysql/%s-%s.sql" % (database, filestamp)
os.popen("mysqldump -u %s -p%s -h %s -e --opt -c %s | gzip -c > %s.gz" % (username, password, hostname, database, filename))