Back up MySQL databases
This requires the following .my.cnf in the home directory of the user the script runs as (root, when being run from rsnapshot). As it contains an important password, permissions on this file should be 600 (-rw-------).
[client] user = root password = YOUR_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
#!/bin/bash -e ########################################################### # Back up MySQL databases ########################################################### PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin" # My config #BACKUP_DIR="." BACKUP_DIR="" # Do not backup these databases IGNORE="test" # Get list of all databases DB_LIST=`mysql -Bse 'show databases'` for db in $DB_LIST; do # set skip variable skip=0 if [ "$IGNORE" != "" ]; then for i in $IGNORE; do [ "$db" == "$i" ] && skip=1 || : done fi if [ "$skip" == "0" ]; then mysqldump $db | gzip -9 > $BACKUP_DIR/$db.sql.gz fi done exit 0