I found this on on the nixcraft craft. Looks pretty good to me. Similar
in functionality to my other script posted here. I’m going to poach
some concepts from here to make a script that will auto-optimize all
tables in all databases on the mysql server.

#!/bin/sh
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jcz 17-feb-2007

copied from http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/

how-to-backup-mysql-databases-web-server-

files-to-a-ftp-server-automatically.html

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System + MySQL backup script

Full backup day – Sun (rest of the day do incremental backup)

Copyright (c) 2005-2006 nixCraft

This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above

Automatically generated by http://bash.cyberciti.biz/backup/wizard-ftp-script.php

Make full backup every Sunday night

i.e. backup everything every Sunday

Next backup only those files that

have been modified since the full

backup (incremental backup)

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* This is a seven-day backup cycle.

* It will store data as follows:

* /home/nixcraft/full/mm-dd-yy/files – Full backup

* /home/nixcraft/incremental/mm-dd-yy/files – Incremental backup

* 1. First script will collect all data from both

* MySQL database server and from file system to

* temporary directory called /backup using tar command

* create a directory structure as discussed above

* 3. Script will dump all files from /backup to ftp server

* 4. Script will remove temporary backup from /backup

* 5. Script will send you an email notification

* if ftp backups failed due to any reason.

* You must have following command installed:

* ncftp ftp client

* mysqldump command

* GNU tar command

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System Setup

DIRS=”/home /etc /var/www”
BACKUP=/tmp/backup.$$
NOW=$(date +”%d-%m-%Y”)
INCFILE=”/root/tar-inc-backup.dat”
DAY=$(date +”%a”)
FULLBACKUP=”Sun”

MySQL Setup

MUSER=”admin”
MPASS=”mysqladminpassword”
MHOST=”localhost”
MYSQL=”$(which mysql)”
MYSQLDUMP=”$(which mysqldump)”
GZIP=”$(which gzip)”

FTP server Setup

FTPD=”/home/vivek/incremental”
FTPU=”vivek”
FTPP=”ftppassword”
FTPS=”208.111.11.2?
NCFTP=”$(which ncftpput)”

Other stuff

EMAILID=”admin@theos.in”

Start Backup for file system

[ ! -d $BACKUP ] && mkdir -p $BACKUP || :

See if we want to make a full backup

if [ “$DAY” == “$FULLBACKUP” ]; then
FTPD=”/home/vivek/full”
FILE=”fs-full-$NOW.tar.gz”
tar -zcvf $BACKUP/$FILE $DIRS
else
i=$(date +”%Hh%Mm%Ss”)
FILE=”fs-i-$NOW-$i.tar.gz”
tar -g $INCFILE -zcvf $BACKUP/$FILE $DIRS
fi

Start MySQL Backup

Get all databases name

DBS=”$($MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS -Bse ‘show databases’)”
for db in $DBS
do
FILE=$BACKUP/mysql-$db.$NOW-$(date +”%T”).gz
$MYSQLDUMP -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS $db | $GZIP -9 > $FILE
done

Dump backup using FTP

#Start FTP backup using ncftp
ncftp -u”$FTPU” -p”$FTPP” $FTPS<
mkdir $FTPD
mkdir $FTPD/$NOW
cd $FTPD/$NOW
lcd $BACKUP
mput *
quit
EOF

Find out if ftp backup failed or not

if [ “$?” == “0” ]; then
rm -f $BACKUP/*
else
T=/tmp/backup.fail
echo “Date: $(date)”>$T
echo “Hostname: $(hostname)” >>$T
echo “Backup failed” >>$T
mail -s “BACKUP FAILED” “$EMAILID” <$T
rm -f $T
fi