README - S3backups Utility Scripts

This is a simple set of scripts to dump a MySQL database to a folder and sync that folder to an AWS S3 bucket.

Install Necessary Utilities

Docker

sudo apt install docker-ce

Git

sudo apt install git git-core -Y

AWS CLI

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"

unzip awscliv2.zip

sudo ./aws/install

rm -fr ~/aws

Clone

Clone the S3Backups repo into the user home folder

git clone https://github.com/Yardboy/s3backups.git

Setup

Run the install script to set up folders and configuration files

~/s3backups/bin/install.sh

Configure

Update ~/.aws/config with appropriate region

Update ~/.aws/credentials with appropriate aws credentials

Update ~/.mysql.defaults with appropriate MySQL credentials

Make all of these files visible to user only

chmod 600 ~/.aws/*

chomd 700 ~/.aws

chmod 600 ~/.mysql.defaults

Test

Confirm that backup script works

/home/pragmatim/s3backups/bin/backup_db.sh DB

where DB is the name of the database to backup

Confirm that sync script works

/home/pragmatim/s3backups/bin/aws_sync.sh PROFILE BUCKET

where PROFILE is the [profile] value in ~/.aws/config and BUCKET is the S3 bucket you are syncing to

Use

CRON backup script

Set up cron job to run the backup_db.sh script

0 * * * * /bin/bash -l -c "/home/pragmatim/s3backups/bin/backup_db.sh DB" >> /home/pragmatim/s3backups/log_files/backup.log 2>&1