All blog posts tagged with backup

MySQL Database Backups with GIT

Posted November 12, 2010

Like any good technology company, we run database backups. Being a website hosting company, these database files become monstrous - we're already well over 20GB per backup (and that's gzipped). Part of this backup process is to keep some copies for historical purposes (not simply one single backup f…

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MySQL Backup Script

Posted May 10, 2010

Just thought I'd share this Linux BASH script which we run nightly to backup our MySQL database.

The features of this script:

  • it keeps a revolving list of files for each day of the week, for each week of year, and for each month. We wanted some history, but not to get carried away.
  • each table is re…

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