My remote MySQL backup script in Perl - rtar_mysql.pl

Before you can use this script, you need to set up SSH so your local cron can access the remote servers without a password.

One thing to note about this script is that it automatically rotates the archived dump files; keeping a fie for the 1st of the week on a month, 1st of the month and 1st of the year.

see: Using Public/Private Key Pairs with SSH

Then, just modify the script for your database/servers (the block @ line 22).

This will create a series of files over time with daily/weekly/monthly MySQL dump backups.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# rtar_mysql.pl
#
# No arguments. The program is to be modified to include each database to be archived.
#
# Saves a tar of a remote mysql dump in a rotating file.
#
# This is used on Andrew's workstation to automatically grab a sql dump tar of each database daily.
#
use strict;
use warnings;

use DateTime;

my $fileError;
my $jobError  = 0;
my $jobErrors = "";
my $result;

# Specify a data block for each remote database to be archived.
my %dumpJobs = (
				 'db1' => {
							'remoteServer' => 'server_1',
							'database'     => 'database_name_1',
							'dbUser'       => 'database_username_1',
							'dbPassword'   => 'database_password_1',
							'dumpFilename' => 'server_1-database_name_1.dump.sql',
							'mysqlDumpCmd' => '/usr/bin/mysqldump',
							'tarCmd'       => '/bin/tar',
				 },
				 'db2' => {
							'remoteServer' => 'server_2',
							'database'     => 'database_name_2',
							'dbUser'       => 'database_username_1',
							'dbPassword'   => 'database_password_2',
							'dumpFilename' => 'server_2-database_name_2.dump.sql',
							'mysqlDumpCmd' => '/usr/bin/mysqldump',
							'tarCmd'       => '/bin/tar',
				 },
);

# Process each specified database dump/archive job.
for my $dumpJob ( sort keys %dumpJobs ) {
	$fileError = 0;
	my $tarballFilename = "$dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'dumpFilename'}-" . tarDateSegment() . ".tgz";
	my $mysqlDumpCmd    = $dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'mysqlDumpCmd'};
	my $tarCmd          = $dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'tarCmd'};
	print "$dumpJob\n";

	my $dumpCommand = "ssh $dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'remoteServer'} '$mysqlDumpCmd ";
	$dumpCommand .= "--user=$dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'dbUser'} --password=$dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'dbPassword'} ";
	$dumpCommand .= "$dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'database'} > $dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'dumpFilename'}'";
	print $dumpCommand . "\n";
	$result = system($dumpCommand );
	if ($result) { $fileError = 1; }

	if ( !$fileError ) {
		my $remoteMakeTarball = "ssh $dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'remoteServer'} '$tarCmd ";
		$remoteMakeTarball .= "cvfz $tarballFilename $dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'dumpFilename'}'";
		print $remoteMakeTarball . "\n";
		$result = system($remoteMakeTarball );
		if ($result) { $fileError = 1; }
	}

	if ( !$fileError ) {

		# using a more flexible naming scheme now
		my $downloadCommand = "scp $dumpJobs{$dumpJob}{'remoteServer'}:$tarballFilename .";
		print $downloadCommand . "\n";
		$result = system($downloadCommand );
		if ($result) { $fileError = 1; }
	}

	if ($fileError) {
		$jobError = 1;
		$jobErrors .= "$dumpJob ";
	}
}
if ($jobError) {
	warn "Errors were encountered: $jobErrors\n";
	exit(1);
}

sub tarDateSegment {
	my $dt = DateTime->now();

	my ( $sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst ) = localtime(time);
	$year += 1900;
	my $dateTime = sprintf "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d", $year, $mon + 1, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec;
	my $date     = sprintf "%4d-%02d-%02d",                $year, $mon + 1, $mday;
	my @weekdays = qw( sun mon tue wed thu fri sat );
	my $weekday  = $weekdays[$wday];
	my @months   = qw( jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec );
	my $month    = $months[$mon];

	my $weekOfMonth = $dt->week_of_month;

	my $dateTar = "";

	# if the first day of the year, set $dateTar like: 2009-1st
	if ( $yday == 1 ) {
		$dateTar = "$year-1st";
	}

	# if the first day of the month, set $dateTar like: feb-1st
	elsif ( $mday == 1 ) {
		$dateTar = "$month-1st";
	}

	# if the first day of the week, set $dateTar like: mon-1
	# where the number is the week of the month number
	elsif ( $wday == 1 ) {
		$dateTar = "$weekday-$weekOfMonth";
	}

	# otherwise, set the $dateTar like: mon
	else {
		$dateTar = "$weekday";
	}

	# $sec      seconds          54
	# $min      monutes          37
	# $hour     hour             11
	# $mon      month            4
	# $year     year             2009
	# $wday     weekday          3
	# $yday     day of the year  146
	# $isdst    is DST           1
	# $weekday  day of the week  wed
	# $month    month            may
	# $dateTime date and time    2009-05-27 11:37:54
	# $date     date             2009-05-27
	return $dateTar;
}

=head1 NAME

rtar_mysql.pl - Andrew's remote MySQL archive program.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use: rtar_mysql.pl

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is a program I wrote to SSH/dump/tar/download/rotate archives of MySQL databases.

=over

=back

=head1 LICENSE

None.

=head1 AUTHOR

Andrew Ault <http://www.andrewault.net/>

=cut