Docker AutoMySQLBackup

A lightweight, Alpine linux based image for creating and managing scheduled MySQL backups. Runs a slightly modified AutoMySQLBackup utility.

Version

This image uses AutoMySQLBackup 2.5 from Debian Linux source repository as a base, branched at 2.6+debian.4-1 tag. Original source can be cloned from git://anonscm.debian.org/users/zigo/automysqlbackup.git or taken at the appropriate Debian package page.

Custom modifications:

• passed logging to stdout/stderr
• removed error logs mailing code
• made default configuration more suitable for docker container

Image usage

Let's create a bridge network and start a MySQL container as an example.

docker network create dbtest
docker run --name some-mysql --network dbtest \
    -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw -d mysql:latest

For the basic one-shot backup, you can run a container like this:

docker run --network dbtest \
    -v '/var/lib/automysqlbackup:/backup' \
    -e DBHOST=some-mysql \
    -e DBNAMES=all \
    -e USERNAME=root \
    -e PASSWORD=my-secret-pw \
    -e DBNAMES=all \
    automysqlbackup

Container will create dumps of all datebases from MySQL inside /var/lib/automysqlbackup directory and exit.

To run container in a scheduled mode, populate CRON_SCHEDULE environment variable with a cron expression.

docker run --network dbtest \
    -v '/var/lib/automysqlbackup:/backup' \
    -e DBHOST=some-mysql \
    -e DBNAMES=all \
    -e USERNAME=root \
    -e PASSWORD=my-secret-pw \
    -e DBNAMES=all \
    -e CRON_SCHEDULE="0 0 * * *" \
    automysqlbackup

Instead of passing environment variables though docker, you can also mount a file with their declarations as volume. See defaults file in this image's git repository for the example.

docker run --network dbtest \
    -v '/var/lib/automysqlbackup:/backup' \
    -v '/etc/default/automysqlbackup:/etc/default/automysqlbackup:ro' \
    automysqlbackup

For the example of using this image with docker-compose, see docker-compose.yml file in the image's repository.

Environment variables

CRON_SCHEDULE

If set to cron expression, container will start a cron daemon for scheduled backups.

USERNAME

Username to access the MySQL server.

PASSWORD

Password to access the MySQL server.

DBHOST

Host name (or IP address) of MySQL server.

DBNAMES

List of space separated database names for Daily/Weekly Backup. Set to all for all databases.

Default value: all

BACKUPDIR

Backup directory location. Folders inside this one will be created (daily, weekly, etc.), and the subfolders will be database names.

Default value: /backup

MDBNAMES

List of space separated database names for Monthly Backups.

Will mirror DBNAMES if DBNAMES set to all.

DBEXCLUDE

List of DBNAMES to exclude if DBNAMES are set to all (must be in " quotes).

CREATE_DATABASE

Include CREATE DATABASE in backup?

Default value: yes

SEPDIR

Separate backup directory and file for each DB? (yes or no).

Default value: yes

DOWEEKLY

Which day do you want weekly backups? (1 to 7 where 1 is Monday).

Default value: 6

COMP

Choose Compression type. (gzip or bzip2)

Default value: gzip

COMMCOMP

Compress communications between backup server and MySQL server?

Default value: no

LATEST

Additionally keep a copy of the most recent backup in a seperate directory.

Default value: no

MAX_ALLOWED_PACKET

The maximum size of the buffer for client/server communication. e.g. 16MB (maximum is 1GB)

SOCKET

For connections to localhost. Sometimes the Unix socket file must be specified.

PREBACKUP

Command to run before backups

POSTBACKUP

Command run after backups

ROUTINES

Backup of stored procedures and routines

Default value: yes

License

Similar to the original automysqlbackup script, all sources for this image are licensed under GPL-2.0.