How to automatically backup ALL mysql databases into sql statement?

Question

MySQL Administrator> Backup Project. It is a great tool to allow you to select databases, and schedule it.

However my issue is:

Today got a few new websites (new database created) Tomorrow got a few more new websites (new databases created)

In this case, I have to always go into Backup Project> Select those remaining schema not in the backup list...

How to make it auto check for any new databases and include in the backup schedule list?

In other word, how to automate the backup of all the mysql databases (so that we don't need to worry when there's new databases created everyday).

Any way to make it happen?

I'm using Windows 2008 server, which is not sh friendly.

Answer 1

MySQL Administrator

With MySQL Administrator you need to manually add databases to the backup.

mysqldump and --all-databases

If you approach this through a dump-command, you can use the --all-databases option to include all databases into the dump.

Answer 2

mysqldump --all-databases

?

Answer 3

mysqldump -u <username> -p<password> --all-databases > database_backup.sql

Answer 4

The problem with the three answers posted so far is that they do not enable you to selectively restore the databases. This can be a real problem in all but a catastrophe.

Ideally, you should have a daily backup, with some history. It should be bulletproof (--force), it should be logged (>> ...log), it should be compressed (| gzip), it should keep separate copies of each database, and it should automatically pick up any databases that are added.

Consider, rather, a shell script like this:

#!/bin/bash

Host=server.domain.com
BDir=/home/backup/backup/mysql

Dump="/usr/bin/mysqldump --skip-extended-insert --force"
MySQL=/usr/bin/mysql

Today=$(date "+%a")

# Get a list of all databases
Databases=$(echo "SHOW DATABASES" | $MySQL -h $Host)


for db in $Databases; do
        date=`date`
        file="$BDir/$Host-$db-$Today.sql.gz"
        echo "Backing up '$db' from '$Host' on '$date' to: "
        echo "   $file"
        $Dump -h $Host $db | gzip > $file
done

Which is assuming that you have a file ~/.my.cnf (chmod 600), that has:

[client]
user = "BACKUP"
password = "SOMEPASS8342783492"

Make sure that whatever user you are using for BACKUP has this grant statement:

GRANT 
  SELECT, SHOW VIEW ON *.* 
  TO BACKUP@localhost 
  IDENTIFIED BY 'SOMEPASS8342783492';

So simply add this to a nightly cronjob, and you have a daily backup that rotates each 7 days week.

0 3 * * *   backup-mysql >> backup-mysql.log 2>> backup-mysql.log

---

The backup directory then contains:

-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 2217482184 Sep  3 13:35 base.appcove.net-VOS4_0-20090903.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup 2505876287 Dec 25 00:48 base.appcove.net-VOS4_0-Fri.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 2500384029 Dec 21 00:48 base.appcove.net-VOS4_0-Mon.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 2506849331 Dec 26 00:48 base.appcove.net-VOS4_0-Sat.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 2499859469 Dec 20 00:48 base.appcove.net-VOS4_0-Sun.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup 2505046147 Dec 24 00:48 base.appcove.net-VOS4_0-Thu.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup 2502277743 Dec 22 00:48 base.appcove.net-VOS4_0-Tue.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 2504169910 Dec 23 00:48 base.appcove.net-VOS4_0-Wed.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup   76983829 Dec 25 00:49 base.appcove.net-VOS4_Mail_0-Fri.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup   76983829 Dec 21 00:49 base.appcove.net-VOS4_Mail_0-Mon.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup   76983829 Dec 26 00:49 base.appcove.net-VOS4_Mail_0-Sat.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup   76983829 Dec 20 00:48 base.appcove.net-VOS4_Mail_0-Sun.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup   76983829 Dec 24 00:49 base.appcove.net-VOS4_Mail_0-Thu.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup   76983829 Dec 22 00:49 base.appcove.net-VOS4_Mail_0-Tue.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup   76983829 Dec 23 00:49 base.appcove.net-VOS4_Mail_0-Wed.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup  304803726 Dec 25 00:49 base.appcove.net-WeSell_0-Fri.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup  303480087 Dec 21 00:49 base.appcove.net-WeSell_0-Mon.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup  304710121 Dec 26 00:49 base.appcove.net-WeSell_0-Sat.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup  303791294 Dec 20 00:49 base.appcove.net-WeSell_0-Sun.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup  305315415 Dec 24 00:49 base.appcove.net-WeSell_0-Thu.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup  302516217 Dec 22 00:49 base.appcove.net-WeSell_0-Tue.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup  303314217 Dec 23 00:49 base.appcove.net-WeSell_0-Wed.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup     135301 Dec 25 00:30 dc40.appcove.net-mysql-Fri.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup     135301 Dec 21 00:30 dc40.appcove.net-mysql-Mon.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup     135301 Dec 26 00:30 dc40.appcove.net-mysql-Sat.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup     135301 Dec 20 00:30 dc40.appcove.net-mysql-Sun.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup     135301 Dec 24 00:30 dc40.appcove.net-mysql-Thu.sql.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 backup backup     135301 Dec 22 00:30 dc40.appcove.net-mysql-Tue.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup     135301 Dec 23 00:30 dc40.appcove.net-mysql-Wed.sql.gz

Answer 5

I've been using http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ to backup my MySQL databases for a couple years now and it's worked very well for me. Here's the description from the sourceforge page:

A script to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features - Backup mutiple databases - Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB - Compress backup files - Backup remote servers - E-mail logs - More..

You can set the script to backup all databases so you don't have to change the script when new dbs are added. You can also tell it which dbs to exclude if you have a database or two that you don't want to backup for some reason.

It's well documented and there are lots of options that you can set that will cover most basic db backup needs. Since it's a single bash script, it's also easy to modify/tweak if something's not quite how you want it to be.