Comments on: Ubuntu Linux Backup MySQL Server Shell Script

By: Eitan

Eitan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:35:16 +0000

using lftp the files are cut at the “:” in the file name (comes from the %T). How can I avoid this?

By: Darek

Darek — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:41:09 +0000

“Most stupid idea ever. Just accidentally wiped my ~/bin directory. Ah, well…”

SHIT! Same thing on my side. I had to reformat and reinstall my server. NOT COOL!

By: simbonk

simbonk — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:29:13 +0000

thank you thankyou! You just saved me 8 hours ;)

By: Avin Tokade

Avin Tokade — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:55:03 +0000

Nice and Very well explained..
I have one issue
I have admin user in Ubuntu box. But any script for this user skip by cron.

How to run script as unprivileged user ?

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:14:50 +0000

Great artilce – Thanks
BUT how do I restore my db’s? I ran the script on my old machine and now I need to restore the backed-up DB’s on my new machine.
How do I do this?

Thanks!

By: Youri

Youri — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:45:59 +0000

Even though this post is from 2007, it was very useful!
I’ve created my own simple version of this script which you can pass arguments to and skips the “information_schema” database. For anyone that wants to use it: https://gist.github.com/1385371

usage:

backup_mysql_databases.sh -u backup -p password -o /home/user/mysql_backups

By: ch

ch — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:19:38 +0000

Gr3at script! Thank you very much! I only have one question, when i execute the script i got this error message:

mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database 'information_schema' when using LOCK TABLES

How can i avoid this? The other db's were dumped correctly. Is there a additional command i have to add? thank you in advance!

By: marek

marek — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:12:30 +0000

yup
[ ! -d $BAK ] && mkdir -p $BAK || /bin/rm -f $BAK/*

Most stupid idea ever. Just accidentally wiped my ~/bin directory. Ah, well…

agree

same for me

VIVEK GITE can modify this part of script …

By: StudioCart

StudioCart — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:02:24 +0000

OK… this may help someone…here is my situation… I used this script to transfer backups from a virtualbox ubuntu Mysql instance to the host win 2003 server.

The host is running FileZilla, Ubuntu was using lftp as above.

When I ran the script I would get a 550 can’t access file error. So I proceeded to troubleshoot for about 10 hours… the thing that got me was that I could create a test.txt file and have the script pick it and send it, but the .gz files created by the script would not transfer even by using lftp at the command line. The error led me to search for a permissions issue. Then I tried other ubuntu clients and other ftp servers on the windows side.

Low and behold I stumbled upon the solution by renaming the .gz file with a shorter name than the file creates.

So it turns out that the name length is the issue…

So I hope this saves someone some head banging..

By: azteam

azteam — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:47:14 +0000

When I run shell scripts, it return error:
mput: Access failed: 550 can’t access file.

How i fix this problem?

By: skyper

skyper — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:33:50 +0000

But how to create with proftpd?

By: ZYV

ZYV — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:04:02 +0000

[ ! -d $BAK ] && mkdir -p $BAK || /bin/rm -f $BAK/*

Most stupid idea ever. Just accidentally wiped my ~/bin directory. Ah, well…

By: Naveen

Naveen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:41:22 +0000

I want to take backup for MYSQL server using java code. I use a backup file name – backup20060731.bak. Now I want to execute this file so that I coule place it into a .zip file and sore it to to a repository using FTP.
I want this type of command for executing the backup(“.bak”) file

Runtime rt = Runtime.getname();
Runtime rt = Runtime.getname();
rt.exec(“exp User/Password file = ” + backupFileName + “log = ” + backupFileName + “.log FULL = y”);

The above command is for ORACLE database. Can any body give me the command for MYSQL database or SQL server 2000 database or POSTGRES database.
Please help me, I need it urgently.

By: TimeWaster

TimeWaster — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:55:03 +0000

THANX! works like a charm!

By: ravi

ravi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:53:20 +0000

hi friends i m new to shell scripting. i want some help if u can. i want to take binary backup (not the simple dump)of mysql database and store it in a folder named of current date and this script should run at early hours of each day.

By: The Traveller

The Traveller — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:02:53 +0000

Thanks for this code! Its really help me!!!

Regards!

By: davidevans

davidevans — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:42:09 +0000

I’m trying to invoke a lftp command within a shell script from a sqr. The idea is to lftp a file from unix to the mainframe. Unfortunately, I’ve receive the error message, “Unexpected Error”. The sqr code is as follows:
let $script = ‘/server/peoplesoft/tmp/lftp.ssh’
call system $script #status
*******Unix Script*****
#!/bin/ksh
lftp -u USERIDSAM, PASSWORD LFTP.TEST.IT.EDU
put testfile.txt testtmp.txt
exit
#ption: This shell script will lftp a file from unix to the mainframe