Backups Blow is a simple perl script for use with cron to automate backing up MYSQL databases and Linux filesystems.

So far it has the following features:

• MYSQL dump and compression (uses a temporary file)
• FTP transport (no temporary file) (username/password auth)
• SSH transport (no temporary file) (key auth only)
• S3 transport (configurable chunk sizes)
• Commandline specified configuration file to facilitate multiple different backup jobs
• Configurable backup paths and tar excludes
• Weekly full backup and incrementals in between
• Removal of old backups after each new full backup, with a configurable number of full+incremental sets kept

You can pull the latest Backups Blow from http://git.lostlogicx.com/backupsblow.git

If you are crazy enough to be interested in adding code, just send a patch, I'll try to have marked what I'm working on in the TODO so that we don't overlap

Speaking of the TODO and other files, view my live development copies here:

• TODO [raw]
• backupsblow.cron [raw]
• zfs_backupsblow.cron [raw]
• README [raw]
• backupsblow.pl [raw]
• zfs_backupsblow.plist [raw]
• index.html [raw]
• backupsblow.log4perl [raw]
• backupsblow.cfg [raw]
• COPYING [raw]
• HISTORY [raw]
• /BackupsBlow/Programs.pm [raw]
• /BackupsBlow/Config.pm [raw]
• /BackupsBlow/Util.pm [raw]
• /BackupsBlow/Transport/Local.pm [raw]
• /BackupsBlow/Transport/Ssh.pm [raw]
• /BackupsBlow/Transport/S3.pm [raw]
• /BackupsBlow/Transport/Ftp.pm [raw]