pimentoso / s3-mysql-backup

S3 MySQL Backup

Simple backup of a MySQL database to Amazon S3, with email notification via SMTP.

What does it do?

It makes a gzipped and timestamped local backup of the specified database using mysqldump. The local backup is then copied to Amazon S3, and the results are emailed to the specified recipient.

Local and S3 backups are retained at this schedule:

• keep 30 days complete
• keep 90 days weekly beyond that
• keep only monthly after that

The email summary is a short email like:

From:    [email protected]
To:      [email protected]
Date:    2012-12-22
Subject: sql backup: my_database_name: 42.0 MB

my_database_name.20121222.170134.sql.gz

Configuration

Configure with a YAML file:

# backup_dir            where to store the local backups, default is ~/s3_mysql_backups
backup_dir: ~/s3_mysql_backups
# remote_dir            OPTIONAL, where to store the remote backups, default is the root of your s3_bucket
remote_dir: /path/to/remote/backups

# s3_access_key_id      your Amazon S3 access_key_id
# s3_secret_access_key  your Amazon S3 secret_access_key
# s3_bucket             your Amazon S3 bucket for the backups
# s3_server             OPTIONAL, your non-Amazon S3-compatible server
# s3_region: us-west-2  OPTIONAL, your aws region when not using the default
s3_access_key_id: my-key
s3_secret_access_key: my-secret
s3_bucket: my-bucket

# dump_host             OPTIONAL, your mysql host name
# dump_user             the database user for mysqldump
# dump_pass             the password for the dump user
dump_user: my-user
dump_pass: my-pass

# mail_to               where to send the backup summary email
mail_to: [email protected]

# Mail credentials
mail_user: [email protected]
mail_pass: example_password
mail_from: [email protected]  # OPTIONAL, defaults to mail_user
mail_domain: smtp.example.com   # OPTIONAL, defaults to: smtp.gmail.com
mail_port: 587                  # OPTIONAL, defaults to: 587
mail_authentication: login      # OPTIONAL, defaults to: :login
mail_start_tls: true            # OPTIONAL, defaults to: true

Installation

gem install s3-mysql-backup

Usage

From Ruby:

S3MysqlBackup.new("database_name", "/path/to/s3-mysql-backup-config.yml").run
or
S3MysqlBackup.new("database_name", { hash: of_options }).run

From command line:

s3-mysql-backup database_name /path/to/s3-mysql-backup-config.yml

If you're using bundler:

cd /path/to/my/app && bundle exec s3-mysql-backup database_name /path/to/s3-mysql-backup-config.yml

Todo

Write tests

Changelog

• 2014-03-24 2.1.1 Bugfix for deleting old backups not happening
• 2013-10-13 2.1.0 Allow other mail hosts, allow Hash config at runtime (7compass#7)
• 2013-06-01 1.2.2 Bugfix for passwords with spaces
• 2013-06-01 1.2.1 Added mysql host option (github.com/sagrimson)
• 2013-05-30 1.1.0 Added support for S3-compatible services, e.g. DreamObjects (thanks to John N. Milner - github.com/jnm)

Credits

2008+ Seventh Compass