Comments on: Automating Your mySQL Database Backup On Media Temple’s Grid-Server

By: John Swindells

John Swindells — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:34:13 +0000

That I don’t know. I assume that (gs) accounts share the same underlying OS, so it was probably missing for all accounts I’m hosted on. I’m sure it wasn’t removed for all of (gs) though.

By: dale.

dale. — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:31:34 +0000

Do you mean it was removed for all of the (gs) or just you?

By: John Swindells

John Swindells — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:29:33 +0000

Hi Dale, turns out it had been removed (no explanation how/why). A sysadmin has put it back on now. I’m glad I occasionally read the output of my backup scripts!

By: dale.

dale. — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:20:13 +0000

It’s still working for me John, where did you get your information?

By: John Swindells

John Swindells — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:19:22 +0000

Hi Sam, it appears that mysqldump has been removed from MT(gs). What else would you suggest for mysql backup?

By: Sam Lu

Sam Lu — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:48:48 +0000

Kiran, at the time, the mediatemple gs service provided a data directory which was private. You can create this folder if you’re not with mediatemple’s gs service. It’s purely just for storing the database backups and it’s important that you keep it outside of a public directory so no one else can see it.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:02:37 +0000

Where can i found /data folder or I need to create a folder

called /data and place db-backup.sh file in project root?

By: goksel

goksel — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:33:39 +0000

something like this works perfect!

#!/bin/bash
NOW=$(date +”%Y-%m-%d”)
USER=”99999″
DBUSER=”db99999″
PASSWORD=”xxxxxxxx”
PREFIX=”db99999_”
for DB in db1 db2 db3
do
mysqldump –add-drop-table -h internal-db.s$USER.gridserver.com -u$DBUSER -p$PASSWORD $PREFIX$DB > /home/$USER/data/backups/$PREFIX$DB.$NOW.sql
done
exit 0

By: Sam Lu

Sam Lu — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:55:49 +0000

Thanks for pointing out that error. It’s been corrected now.

By: Macrike

Macrike — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:30:19 +0000

Hey,

Great blog post, it helped me a lot. Just one correction:

# Replace ‘PASSWORD’ with your SSH password

Shouldn’t that be the Database password? My SSH and my MySQL passwords are different, so I had to use the MySQL password.