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First usage\n\n### A.1) installation\n\nThis application uses the friends of bash libraries (https://github.com/bjoern-hempel/friends-of-bash). Check that the libraries are available:\n\n```\nuser$ friends-of-bash --version\nfriends-of-bash/v0.0.11\n```\n\nIf you can see a similar friends of bash version output like above, you can now install this application:\n\n```\nuser$ sudo -E friends-of-bash install \"git@github.com:bjoern-hempel/backup-mysql.git\"\n```\n\nIf you don't have installed the friends of bash libraries, please install them first. In short:\n\n```\nuser$ cd ~ \u0026\u0026 git clone git@github.com:bjoern-hempel/friends-of-bash.git \u0026\u0026 cd friends-of-bash\nuser$ sudo -E bin/install\nuser$ cd .. \u0026\u0026 rm -rf friends-of-bash\n```\n\n### A.2) add the mysql config file\n\n```\nuser$ sudo mkdir /etc/backup-mysql\nuser$ sudo touch /etc/backup-mysql/config\nuser$ sudo vi /etc/backup-mysql/config\n```\n\nContent of /etc/backup-mysql/config:\n\n```\nMYSQL_HOST=\"localhost\"\nMYSQL_USER=\"root\"\nMYSQL_PASSWORD=\"**********\"\nMYSQL_BACKUP_PATH=\"/var/backups/mysql\"\nLOCK_FILE=\"build.lock\"\n```\n\nMake the file only readable by root user:\n\n```\nuser$ sudo chmod -R 500 /etc/backup-mysql/config\n```\n\n### A.3) backup the database (the manual way)\n\n```\nuser$ sudo backup-mysql                                                                                                                                                        \n[2017-04-28 15:45:14] [HEADER‧] START BACKUP MYSQL TABLES..\n[2017-04-28 15:45:14] [INFO‧‧‧] Create folder /var/backups/mysql/2017/04/28/15-45-14\n[2017-04-28 15:45:14] [INFO‧‧‧] Switch into folder /var/backups/mysql\n[2017-04-28 15:45:14] [INFO‧‧‧] Lock backup folder. Write /var/backups/mysql/2017/04/28/15-45-14/build.lock.\n[2017-04-28 15:45:14] [INFO‧‧‧] Dump database de.rsm-live.maco.team-mline.stage TO /var/backups/mysql/2017/04/28/15-45-14/de.rsm-live.maco.team-mline.stage.sql\n[2017-04-28 15:45:14] [INFO‧‧‧] Zip sql file to /var/backups/mysql/2017/04/28/15-45-14/de.rsm-live.maco.team-mline.stage.sql.gz\n[2017-04-28 15:45:14] [INFO‧‧‧] Dump database de.rsm-live.maco.team-mline.www TO /var/backups/mysql/2017/04/28/15-45-14/de.rsm-live.maco.team-mline.www.sql\n[2017-04-28 15:45:14] [INFO‧‧‧] Zip sql file to /var/backups/mysql/2017/04/28/15-45-14/de.rsm-live.maco.team-mline.www.sql.gz\n[2017-04-28 15:45:15] [INFO‧‧‧] Delete lock file\n[2017-04-28 15:45:15] [INFO‧‧‧] Finish backup mysql script\n```\n\n### A.4) backup the database (the cronjob way)\n\n```\nuser$ sudo touch /var/log/backup-mysql.log\nuser$ sudo chmod 664 /var/log/backup-mysql.log\nuser$ sudo chown root:root /var/log/backup-mysql.log\nuser$ sudo vi /etc/crontab\n```\n\nContent of /etc/crontab:\n\n```\n# MySQL backup every day one o'clock\n00 01 * * * root backup-mysql \u003e\u003e /var/log/backup-mysql.log 2\u003e\u00261\n```\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbjoern-hempel%2Fbackup-mysql","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbjoern-hempel%2Fbackup-mysql","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbjoern-hempel%2Fbackup-mysql/lists"}