Hi everyone,
I found a nice backup script (for macos or linux) for a postgres database
here : Auto PostgreSQL backup script. · GitHub
it makes a backup folder, with 3 folders inside for daily, weekly and monthly backup.
it works nice, only problem is it does not clear old backups by itself.
it keeps only one backup per day, so in the daily folder we only have 7 backups
but in the weekly and monthly folders, it goes on and on … and fills the disk if you don’t remove it by hand.
my bash-fu is kind of limited, and if I quite understand what the script does, I’m not able to correct it to do some cleaning of the folders, like having some constant to allow a max number of files in a folder.
like asked in one comment here :
if anyone here has enough knowledge to explain me how to do it, I would be totally grateful !
thanks.
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Hi. Add these lines:
add between line 419/420 of Version 1.0 of script:
find "$BACKUPDIR/monthly" -type f -mtime +364 -delete
add line at 440 of Version 1 of script:
find "$BACKUPDIR/weekly" -type f -mtime +364 -delete
This example will delete all files older than 1 year.
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well after some tests, these lines should also be added around lines 357 and 393 of the script.
this should be the final script, modified to keep monthly and weekly backups a certain number of days.
see constants for that at the beginning of the script.
#!/bin/bash
#
# PostgreSQL Backup Script Ver 1.0
# http://autopgsqlbackup.frozenpc.net
# Copyright (c) 2005 Aaron Axelsen <axelseaa@amadmax.com>
#
# This script is based of the AutoMySQLBackup Script Ver 2.2
# It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/
#
# The PostgreSQL changes are based on a patch agaisnt AutoMySQLBackup 1.9
# created by Friedrich Lobenstock <fl@fl.priv.at>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
#=====================================================================
# Set the following variables to your system needs
# (Detailed instructions below variables)
#=====================================================================
# Username to access the PostgreSQL server e.g. dbuser
USERNAME=postgres
# Password
# create a file $HOME/.pgpass containing a line like this
# hostname:*:*:dbuser:dbpass
# replace hostname with the value of DBHOST and postgres with
# the value of USERNAME
# Host name (or IP address) of PostgreSQL server e.g localhost
DBHOST=localhost
# List of DBNAMES for Daily/Weekly Backup e.g. "DB1 DB2 DB3"
DBNAMES="all"
# Backup directory location e.g /backups
BACKUPDIR="/var/backups/postgres"
# Mail setup
# What would you like to be mailed to you?
# - log : send only log file
# - files : send log file and sql files as attachments (see docs)
# - stdout : will simply output the log to the screen if run manually.
MAILCONTENT="log"
# Set the maximum allowed email size in k. (4000 = approx 5MB email [see docs])
MAXATTSIZE="4000"
# Email Address to send mail to? (user@domain.com)
MAILADDR="root@localhost"
# ============================================================
# === ADVANCED OPTIONS ( Read the doc's below for details )===
#=============================================================
# List of DBBNAMES for Monthly Backups.
MDBNAMES="template1 $DBNAMES"
# List of DBNAMES to EXLUCDE if DBNAMES are set to all (must be in " quotes)
DBEXCLUDE=""
# Include CREATE DATABASE in backup?
CREATE_DATABASE=yes
# Separate backup directory and file for each DB? (yes or no)
SEPDIR=yes
# Which day do you want weekly backups? (1 to 7 where 1 is Monday)
DOWEEKLY=6
# Choose Compression type. (gzip or bzip2)
COMP=bzip2
# number of days to keep the backups
KEEP_MONTHLY_DAYS=364
KEEP_WEEKLY_DAYS=89
# Command to run before backups (uncomment to use)
#PREBACKUP="/etc/pgsql-backup-pre"
# Command run after backups (uncomment to use)
#POSTBACKUP="bash /home/backups/scripts/ftp_pgsql"
#=====================================================================
# Options documentation
#=====================================================================
# Set USERNAME and PASSWORD of a user that has at least SELECT permission
# to ALL databases.
#
# Set the DBHOST option to the server you wish to backup, leave the
# default to backup "this server".(to backup multiple servers make
# copies of this file and set the options for that server)
#
# Put in the list of DBNAMES(Databases)to be backed up. If you would like
# to backup ALL DBs on the server set DBNAMES="all".(if set to "all" then
# any new DBs will automatically be backed up without needing to modify
# this backup script when a new DB is created).
#
# If the DB you want to backup has a space in the name replace the space
# with a % e.g. "data base" will become "data%base"
# NOTE: Spaces in DB names may not work correctly when SEPDIR=no.
#
# You can change the backup storage location from /backups to anything
# you like by using the BACKUPDIR setting..
#
# The MAILCONTENT and MAILADDR options and pretty self explanitory, use
# these to have the backup log mailed to you at any email address or multiple
# email addresses in a space seperated list.
# (If you set mail content to "log" you will require access to the "mail" program
# on your server. If you set this to "files" you will have to have mutt installed
# on your server. If you set it sto stdout it will log to the screen if run from
# the console or to the cron job owner if run through cron)
#
# MAXATTSIZE sets the largest allowed email attachments total (all backup files) you
# want the script to send. This is the size before it is encoded to be sent as an email
# so if your mail server will allow a maximum mail size of 5MB I would suggest setting
# MAXATTSIZE to be 25% smaller than that so a setting of 4000 would probably be fine.
#
# Finally copy automysqlbackup.sh to anywhere on your server and make sure
# to set executable permission. You can also copy the script to
# /etc/cron.daily to have it execute automatically every night or simply
# place a symlink in /etc/cron.daily to the file if you wish to keep it
# somwhere else.
# NOTE:On Debian copy the file with no extention for it to be run
# by cron e.g just name the file "automysqlbackup"
#
# Thats it..
#
#
# === Advanced options doc's ===
#
# The list of MDBNAMES is the DB's to be backed up only monthly. You should
# always include "mysql" in this list to backup your user/password
# information along with any other DBs that you only feel need to
# be backed up monthly. (if using a hosted server then you should
# probably remove "mysql" as your provider will be backing this up)
# NOTE: If DBNAMES="all" then MDBNAMES has no effect as all DBs will be backed
# up anyway.
#
# If you set DBNAMES="all" you can configure the option DBEXCLUDE. Other
# wise this option will not be used.
# This option can be used if you want to backup all dbs, but you want
# exclude some of them. (eg. a db is to big).
#
# Set CREATE_DATABASE to "yes" (the default) if you want your SQL-Dump to create
# a database with the same name as the original database when restoring.
# Saying "no" here will allow your to specify the database name you want to
# restore your dump into, making a copy of the database by using the dump
# created with automysqlbackup.
# NOTE: Not used if SEPDIR=no
#
# The SEPDIR option allows you to choose to have all DBs backed up to
# a single file (fast restore of entire server in case of crash) or to
# seperate directories for each DB (each DB can be restored seperately
# in case of single DB corruption or loss).
#
# To set the day of the week that you would like the weekly backup to happen
# set the DOWEEKLY setting, this can be a value from 1 to 7 where 1 is Monday,
# The default is 6 which means that weekly backups are done on a Saturday.
#
# COMP is used to choose the copmression used, options are gzip or bzip2.
# bzip2 will produce slightly smaller files but is more processor intensive so
# may take longer to complete.
#
# Use PREBACKUP and POSTBACKUP to specify Per and Post backup commands
# or scripts to perform tasks either before or after the backup process.
#
#
#=====================================================================
# Backup Rotation..
#=====================================================================
#
# Daily Backups are rotated weekly..
# Weekly Backups are run by default on Saturday Morning when
# cron.daily scripts are run...Can be changed with DOWEEKLY setting..
# Weekly Backups are rotated on a 5 week cycle..
# Monthly Backups are run on the 1st of the month..
# Monthly Backups are NOT rotated automatically...
# It may be a good idea to copy Monthly backups offline or to another
# server..
#
#=====================================================================
# Please Note!!
#=====================================================================
#
# I take no resposibility for any data loss or corruption when using
# this script..
# This script will not help in the event of a hard drive crash. If a
# copy of the backup has not be stored offline or on another PC..
# You should copy your backups offline regularly for best protection.
#
# Happy backing up...
#
#=====================================================================
# Change Log
#=====================================================================
#
# VER 1.0 - (2005-03-25)
# Initial Release - based on AutoMySQLBackup 2.2
#
#=====================================================================
#=====================================================================
#
# Should not need to be modified from here down!!
#
#=====================================================================
#=====================================================================
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/postgres/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d` # Datestamp e.g 2002-09-21
DOW=`date +%A` # Day of the week e.g. Monday
DNOW=`date +%u` # Day number of the week 1 to 7 where 1 represents Monday
DOM=`date +%d` # Date of the Month e.g. 27
M=`date +%B` # Month e.g January
W=`date +%V` # Week Number e.g 37
VER=1.0 # Version Number
LOGFILE=$BACKUPDIR/$DBHOST-`date +%N`.log # Logfile Name
OPT="" # OPT string for use with mysqldump ( see man mysqldump )
BACKUPFILES="" # thh: added for later mailing
# Create required directories
if [ ! -e "$BACKUPDIR" ] # Check Backup Directory exists.
then
mkdir -p "$BACKUPDIR"
fi
if [ ! -e "$BACKUPDIR/daily" ] # Check Daily Directory exists.
then
mkdir -p "$BACKUPDIR/daily"
fi
if [ ! -e "$BACKUPDIR/weekly" ] # Check Weekly Directory exists.
then
mkdir -p "$BACKUPDIR/weekly"
fi
if [ ! -e "$BACKUPDIR/monthly" ] # Check Monthly Directory exists.
then
mkdir -p "$BACKUPDIR/monthly"
fi
# IO redirection for logging.
touch $LOGFILE
exec 6>&1 # Link file descriptor #6 with stdout.
# Saves stdout.
exec > $LOGFILE # stdout replaced with file $LOGFILE.
# Functions
# Database dump function
dbdump () {
pg_dump --username=$USERNAME $HOST $OPT $1 > $2
return 0
}
# Compression function
SUFFIX=""
compression () {
if [ "$COMP" = "gzip" ]; then
gzip -f "$1"
echo
echo Backup Information for "$1"
gzip -l "$1.gz"
SUFFIX=".gz"
elif [ "$COMP" = "bzip2" ]; then
echo Compression information for "$1.bz2"
bzip2 -f -v $1 2>&1
SUFFIX=".bz2"
else
echo "No compression option set, check advanced settings"
fi
return 0
}
# Run command before we begin
if [ "$PREBACKUP" ]
then
echo ======================================================================
echo "Prebackup command output."
echo
eval $PREBACKUP
echo
echo ======================================================================
echo
fi
if [ "$SEPDIR" = "yes" ]; then # Check if CREATE DATABSE should be included in Dump
if [ "$CREATE_DATABASE" = "no" ]; then
OPT="$OPT"
else
OPT="$OPT --create"
fi
else
OPT="$OPT"
fi
# Hostname for LOG information
if [ "$DBHOST" = "localhost" ]; then
DBHOST="`hostname -f`"
HOST=""
else
HOST="-h $DBHOST"
fi
# If backing up all DBs on the server
if [ "$DBNAMES" = "all" ]; then
DBNAMES="`psql -U $USERNAME $HOST -l -A -F: | sed -ne "/:/ { /Name:Owner/d; /template0/d; s/:.*$//; p }"`"
# If DBs are excluded
for exclude in $DBEXCLUDE
do
DBNAMES=`echo $DBNAMES | sed "s/\b$exclude\b//g"`
done
MDBNAMES=$DBNAMES
fi
echo ======================================================================
echo AutoPostgreSQLBackup VER $VER
echo http://autopgsqlbackup.frozenpc.net/
echo
echo Backup of Database Server - $DBHOST
echo ======================================================================
# Test is seperate DB backups are required
if [ "$SEPDIR" = "yes" ]; then
echo Backup Start Time `date`
echo ======================================================================
# Monthly Full Backup of all Databases
if [ $DOM = "01" ]; then
for MDB in $MDBNAMES
do
# Prepare $DB for using
MDB="`echo $MDB | sed 's/%/ /g'`"
if [ ! -e "$BACKUPDIR/monthly/$MDB" ] # Check Monthly DB Directory exists.
then
mkdir -p "$BACKUPDIR/monthly/$MDB"
fi
echo Monthly Backup of $MDB...
dbdump "$MDB" "$BACKUPDIR/monthly/$MDB/${MDB}_$DATE.$M.$MDB.sql"
compression "$BACKUPDIR/monthly/$MDB/${MDB}_$DATE.$M.$MDB.sql"
find "$BACKUPDIR/monthly/$MDB" -type f -mtime +$KEEP_MONTHLY_DAYS -delete
BACKUPFILES="$BACKUPFILES $BACKUPDIR/monthly/$MDB/${MDB}_$DATE.$M.$MDB.sql$SUFFIX"
echo ----------------------------------------------------------------------
done
fi
for DB in $DBNAMES
do
# Prepare $DB for using
DB="`echo $DB | sed 's/%/ /g'`"
# Create Separate directory for each DB
if [ ! -e "$BACKUPDIR/daily/$DB" ] # Check Daily DB Directory exists.
then
mkdir -p "$BACKUPDIR/daily/$DB"
fi
if [ ! -e "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/$DB" ] # Check Weekly DB Directory exists.
then
mkdir -p "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/$DB"
fi
# Weekly Backup
if [ $DNOW = $DOWEEKLY ]; then
echo Weekly Backup of Database \( $DB \)
echo Rotating 5 weeks Backups...
if [ "$W" -le 05 ];then
REMW=`expr 48 + $W`
elif [ "$W" -lt 15 ];then
REMW=0`expr $W - 5`
else
REMW=`expr $W - 5`
fi
eval rm -fv "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/$DB/week.$REMW.*"
echo
dbdump "$DB" "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/$DB/${DB}_week.$W.$DATE.sql"
compression "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/$DB/${DB}_week.$W.$DATE.sql"
find "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/$DB" -type f -mtime +$KEEP_WEEKLY_DAYS -delete
BACKUPFILES="$BACKUPFILES $BACKUPDIR/weekly/$DB/${DB}_week.$W.$DATE.sql$SUFFIX"
echo ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Daily Backup
else
echo Daily Backup of Database \( $DB \)
echo Rotating last weeks Backup...
eval rm -fv "$BACKUPDIR/daily/$DB/*.$DOW.sql.*"
echo
dbdump "$DB" "$BACKUPDIR/daily/$DB/${DB}_$DATE.$DOW.sql"
compression "$BACKUPDIR/daily/$DB/${DB}_$DATE.$DOW.sql"
BACKUPFILES="$BACKUPFILES $BACKUPDIR/daily/$DB/${DB}_$DATE.$DOW.sql$SUFFIX"
echo ----------------------------------------------------------------------
fi
done
echo Backup End `date`
echo ======================================================================
else # One backup file for all DBs
echo Backup Start `date`
echo ======================================================================
# Monthly Full Backup of all Databases
if [ $DOM = "01" ]; then
echo Monthly full Backup of \( $MDBNAMES \)...
dbdump "$MDBNAMES" "$BACKUPDIR/monthly/$DATE.$M.all-databases.sql"
compression "$BACKUPDIR/monthly/$DATE.$M.all-databases.sql"
find "$BACKUPDIR/monthly" -type f -mtime +$KEEP_MONTHLY_DAYS -delete
BACKUPFILES="$BACKUPFILES $BACKUPDIR/monthly/$DATE.$M.all-databases.sql$SUFFIX"
echo ----------------------------------------------------------------------
fi
# Weekly Backup
if [ $DNOW = $DOWEEKLY ]; then
echo Weekly Backup of Databases \( $DBNAMES \)
echo
echo Rotating 5 weeks Backups...
if [ "$W" -le 05 ];then
REMW=`expr 48 + $W`
elif [ "$W" -lt 15 ];then
REMW=0`expr $W - 5`
else
REMW=`expr $W - 5`
fi
eval rm -fv "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/week.$REMW.*"
echo
dbdump "$DBNAMES" "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/week.$W.$DATE.sql"
compression "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/week.$W.$DATE.sql"
find "$BACKUPDIR/weekly" -type f -mtime +$KEEP_WEEKLY_DAYS -delete
BACKUPFILES="$BACKUPFILES $BACKUPDIR/weekly/week.$W.$DATE.sql$SUFFIX"
echo ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Daily Backup
else
echo Daily Backup of Databases \( $DBNAMES \)
echo
echo Rotating last weeks Backup...
eval rm -fv "$BACKUPDIR/daily/*.$DOW.sql.*"
echo
dbdump "$DBNAMES" "$BACKUPDIR/daily/$DATE.$DOW.sql"
compression "$BACKUPDIR/daily/$DATE.$DOW.sql"
BACKUPFILES="$BACKUPFILES $BACKUPDIR/daily/$DATE.$DOW.sql$SUFFIX"
echo ----------------------------------------------------------------------
fi
echo Backup End Time `date`
echo ======================================================================
fi
echo Total disk space used for backup storage..
echo Size - Location
echo `du -hs "$BACKUPDIR"`
echo
# Run command when we're done
if [ "$POSTBACKUP" ]
then
echo ======================================================================
echo "Postbackup command output."
echo
eval $POSTBACKUP
echo
echo ======================================================================
fi
#Clean up IO redirection
exec 1>&6 6>&- # Restore stdout and close file descriptor #6.
if [ "$MAILCONTENT" = "files" ]
then
#Get backup size
ATTSIZE=`du -c $BACKUPFILES | grep "[[:digit:][:space:]]total$" |sed s/\s*total//`
if [ $MAXATTSIZE -ge $ATTSIZE ]
then
BACKUPFILES=`echo "$BACKUPFILES" | sed -e "s# # -a #g"` #enable multiple attachments
mutt -s "PostgreSQL Backup Log and SQL Files for $DBHOST - $DATE" $BACKUPFILES $MAILADDR < $LOGFILE #send via mutt
else
cat "$LOGFILE" | mail -s "WARNING! - PostgreSQL Backup exceeds set maximum attachment size on $HOST - $DATE" $MAILADDR
fi
elif [ "$MAILCONTENT" = "log" ]
then
cat "$LOGFILE" | mail -s "PostgreSQL Backup Log for $DBHOST - $DATE" $MAILADDR
else
cat "$LOGFILE"
fi
# Clean up Logfile
eval rm -f "$LOGFILE"
exit 0
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