Comments on: Update to AutoMySQLBackup.sh

By: mark

mark — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:37:24 +0000

I reviewed the code. I didn’t see any way the script would delete the files you said unless you pointed your backups to be put in these directory?

Not smart if you did. The documentation says “… remove files older then seven …
days from the BACKUPDIR directory.”

By: Pascall

Pascall — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:43:44 +0000

Hi,
I tried to use your script but i had the same error as Andy, and MORE!!
It remove everything in my /var/log et /var/www and some other folders!!!!

i gonna look at the script line after line to see if it’s a mistake or if you do it intentionally…

be careful if you use it !

By: mark

mark — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:05:38 +0000

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By: Kelly grennan

Kelly grennan — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:18:26 +0000

Who was your great grandfather and your grandfather on the grennan side. All of our family is from ireland to squim washington then on from there. Fintan joesph grennan, fenton joesph grennan, george alden grennan, john “kelly” grennan ( me born in 1948 auburn washington, william lee grennan, dylan zane grennan Have never met another grennan that i wasnt related too. My great grandfather fintan joesph came from thomastown ireland. 12 children, his son my grandfather fenton joesph grennan born in squim washington one of 13, my father george alden grennan born in algonqin washington one of 13, myself oldest of nine born in auburn washington raised in enumclaw washington.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:57:32 +0000

I would really like to use this but I am getting the following error on a Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS box:

line 466: {split($0,a,”.”) ; print a[1] }: command not found

By: Eric H

Eric H — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:23:29 +0000

Hi Mark,
I like the script a lot.

I would like to request a feature.

It would be nice to have mysqldump piped to gzip, so that it writes only compressed dumps to disk.

This will avoid excessive disk thrashing as it dumps then has to gzip after the dump is written to disk.

Thanks,
-Eric

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:56:15 +0000

Hi,

The link in your article points to…

http://www.mysqlfanboy.com/2011/01/Files/automysqlbackup.sh

Thanks for the new link :-)

By: mark

mark — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:41:39 +0000

This link is working for me. Can you tell me the link you are using?

http://www.mysqlfanboy.com/Files/automysqlbackup.sh

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:57:45 +0000

Mark, the link for automysqlbackup.sh you’ve posted doesn’t work :-(

By: mark

mark — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:51:05 +0000

This link should be working. If you have trouble please email me mark @ grennan.com

I have not tested my updates on MySQL 5.5. I’m currently using 5.1.