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By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:11:00 +0000

I had to modify this script to work at my host, because the database host is not localhost.

The script already has a line for the IP address of the mysql server, which I filled out:

DBHOST=example.database.com

Then I had to modify the mysqldump command line to include the host (-h):

mysqldump -h$DBHOST -u$USERNAME -p$PASSWORD $DBNAME | gzip > $BACKUPDIR/mysql_backup_$DATE.gz;

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By: RalphGL

RalphGL — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:50:42 +0000

hi Archie,
the described problem on debian (or ubuntu) system is caused by forbidden parameters for mtime:
m=month; h=hours, m=minutes, s=seconds are not allowed, only the number of days must be defined.

By: Archie

Archie — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:45:39 +0000

Hey Ralph,

Thanks for mentioning that!
The script was used on FreeBSD and tried out on CentOS, since it was a custom solution, we couldn’t cover all distros to make sure it’s going to work everywhere.

Anyway, if you have a fix for that – please let us know – we are much interested.

By: RalphGL

RalphGL — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:56:49 +0000

find $BACKUPDIR -type f -name “*.gz” -mtime +$BPAGE -exec rm -f {} \;
is leading to
find: invalid argument `-exec’ to `-mtime’
on Debian Lenny-System. So the backups which are to old will not been deleted.

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