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| - | ======= Backup Manager ====== | ||
| - | Backup Manager is a perl script designed to backup and optionally encrypt filesystems and databases. | ||
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| - | === Checklist === | ||
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| - | * ✔ root mysql user, with password in .my.cnf | ||
| - | * ✔ use --defaults-extra-file=/ | ||
| - | * ✔ don't use tarball-incremental, | ||
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| - | === Configuration === | ||
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| - | There is a template file installed at ''/ | ||
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| - | The most common variables you would want to change are: | ||
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| - | # Where to store the archives | ||
| - | export BM_REPOSITORY_ROOT="/ | ||
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| - | # Number of days we have to keep an archive (Time To Live) | ||
| - | export BM_ARCHIVE_TTL=" | ||
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| - | # The backup method to use. | ||
| - | # Available methods are: | ||
| - | # - tarball | ||
| - | # - tarball-incremental | ||
| - | # - mysql | ||
| - | # - pgsql | ||
| - | # - svn | ||
| - | # - pipe | ||
| - | # - none | ||
| - | # If you don't want to use any backup method (you don't want to | ||
| - | # build archives) then choose " | ||
| - | export BM_ARCHIVE_METHOD=" | ||
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| - | </ | ||
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| - | == Encryption == | ||
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| - | # Uncomment the following line if you want to enable encryption | ||
| - | # export BM_ENCRYPTION_METHOD=" | ||
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| - | # The encryption will be made using a GPG ID | ||
| - | # Examples: | ||
| - | # export BM_ENCRYPTION_RECIPIENT=" | ||
| - | # export BM_ENCRYPTION_RECIPIENT=" | ||
| - | # export BM_ENCRYPTION_RECIPIENT=" | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | == Incremental Tarballs == | ||
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| - | # Which frequency to use for the master tarball? | ||
| - | # possible values: weekly, monthly | ||
| - | export BM_TARBALLINC_MASTERDATETYPE=" | ||
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| - | === Gotchas === | ||
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| - | == backup-manager and ~/.my.cnf == | ||
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| - | backup-manager will use the defaults from '' | ||
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| - | In that case, if you have something like username in the personal configuration, | ||
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| - | I suppose technically it could be a MySQL bug, since -u< | ||
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| - | Backup Manager also creates a temporary file at '' | ||
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| - | Probably the simplest way to do backups, if running as root, is to just use the same credentials located in the user's config file. Another option is to create a new user to run the process of archival and storage, but that would require the user to have read permissions to other users' files. | ||
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| - | == cron and mkconfig == | ||
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| - | When running mkconfig with cron, vixie-cron ignores the ~/.my.cnf file for some reason. | ||
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| - | == Blacklist == | ||
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| - | Here's some files to exclude when backing up: | ||
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