Basic features¶

Backup¶

Yes you are right, this tool is for taking backups. It should take care for automating this process for you. You can specify the backup directory in config file (default ~/.autoxtrabackup/autoxtrabackup.cnf) under [Backup] category. So you have prepared your config and now you are ready for start.

The command for taking full backup with DEBUG enabled, i.e first run of the tool.

$ sudo autoxtrabackup -v -lf /home/shako/.autoxtrabackup/autoxtrabackup.log \
-l DEBUG --defaults-file=/home/shako/.autoxtrabackup/autoxtrabackup.cnf --backup

The result of second run; it will take an incremental backup.

$ sudo autoxtrabackup -v -lf /home/shako/.autoxtrabackup/autoxtrabackup.log \
-l DEBUG --defaults-file=/home/shako/.autoxtrabackup/autoxtrabackup.cnf --backup

You will have 2 separate folders inside backup directory:

(.venv) shako@shako-localhost:~/XB_TEST$ cd backup_dir/
(.venv) shako@shako-localhost:~/XB_TEST/backup_dir$ ls
full  inc

We took full backup and it should be under the full directory:

(.venv) shako@shako-localhost:~/XB_TEST/backup_dir$ ls full/
2019-01-20_13-52-07

Incremental backups are inside inc directory:

(.venv) shako@shako-localhost:~/XB_TEST/backup_dir$ ls inc/
2019-01-20_13-53-59

If you want more incremental backups just run the same command again and again.

Prepare¶

For preparing backups just use –prepare option. For our case we have a full and 2 incremental backups:

(.venv) shako@shako-localhost:~/XB_TEST/backup_dir$ ls full/
2019-01-20_13-52-07
(.venv) shako@shako-localhost:~/XB_TEST/backup_dir$ ls inc/
2019-01-20_13-53-59  2019-01-20_13-56-42

All backups will be prepared automatically.

You are going to have 3 options to choose:

Only prepare backups.
Prepare backups and restore immediately.
Restore from already prepared backup.

For now let’s choose 1:

$ sudo `which autoxtrabackup` --prepare -v -l DEBUG

That’s it. Your backup is ready to restore/recovery.