anyway.. just add “$DATESTAMP.” to all “$dbname.sql.tar.gz” and to first “$website.tar.gz”

tadaa..

and not tested yet, but I replaced the original “rm $destdir/*.tar.gz” (remove all tar.gz files) with “find /$destdir –type f –mtime +10 –exec rm {} \;” (delete all files older then 10 days.)

and modified to include it in all filenames i.e.:

backup databases

for dbname in echo 'show databases;' | /usr/bin/mysql -h $dbhost -u$dbuser -p$dbpassword do if [ $dbname != “Database” ]; then echo date “: Backing up database $dbname…” » $destdir/backup.log /usr/bin/mysqldump –h $dbhost –opt –skip-lock-tables –u$dbuser –p$dbpassword $dbname > $destdir/$DATESTAMP.$dbname.sql tar –czf $destdir/$DATESTAMP.$dbname.sql.tar.gz $destdir/$DATESTAMP.$dbname.sql rm $destdir/$DATESTAMP.$dbname.sql fi done

backup web content

echo date “: Backing up web content…” » $destdir/$DATESTAMP.backup.log for website in $websites do echo date “: Backing up website $website…” » $destdir/backup.log tar –czf $destdir/$DATESTAMP.$website.tar.gz $domaindir/$website done

also useful thing — exclude a specific directory (in my case cash, save some precious bandwidth ) tar -czf $destdir/$DATESTAMP.$website.tar.gz $domaindir/$website --exclude 'notthis/cache/*'

also couldnt figure out database locking issue so i added “–skip-lock-tables” to command. so far so good.

thanks so much fur such a great tutorial.

The backup is working, its just failing when it tries to backup the information_schema, which isn’t required.

Access denied for user ‘dbxxxxx_s3sync’@’%’ to database ‘yyyyy’ when using LOCK TABLES

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Database Backup Start Time Fri Oct 8 01:33:30 PDT 2010

Backing up databases from /home/86415/data/database_backups tar: Removing leading ‘/’ from member names tar: /home/86415/data/database_backups: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Complete

======================================================================

Database Backup End Time Fri Oct 8 01:33:30 PDT 2010

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Starting Transfer to Online Storage Backup Fri Oct 8 01:33:30 PDT 2010

Now transfering Backups to Amazon S3 S3 command failed: list_bucket max-keys 200 prefix delimiter / With result 404 Not Found S3 ERROR: # ./s3sync.rb:290:in +': can't convert nil into Array (TypeError) from ./s3sync.rb:290:ins3TreeRecurse’ from ./s3sync.rb:346:in main' from ./thread_generator.rb:79:incall’ from ./thread_generator.rb:79:in initialize' from ./thread_generator.rb:76:innew’ from ./thread_generator.rb:76:in initialize' from ./s3sync.rb:267:innew’ from ./s3sync.rb:267:in ‘main’ from ./s3sync.rb:735

Complete

So I tried to make things a little easier on myself by making the “list of website directories to backup” /domains and “the directory where all website domain directories reside” /home/XXXXX/users/.home and the resulting .tar.gz file only had folders in it for home>XXXXX>users. No domains backed-up.

Simply put, I was hoping to skip having to list all domains and the need to update the script every time I add/remove a domain. Any idea how I might be able to do that?

Again, thank you.

Anyone have any clue on this?

Like: No such file or directory in my Cron Deamon emails and when I try to kick off my cron job through SSH I can’t kick off ./server_backup.sh in my data folder. It keep saying: –bash: /backup_server.sh: No such file or directory

Anything changed on MT side? or am I missing something. Hope you can help.