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

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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######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#####

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### 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 <

quote USER $FTPU

quote PASS $FTPP

cd $FTPD

mput $DUMPFILE

quit

END_SCRIPT

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

rm -rf $ARCHIVED