percona-xtrabackup.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Put me in cron.daily, cron.hourly or cron.d for your own custom schedule

# Running daily? You'll keep 3 daily backups
# Running hourly? You'll keep 3 hourly backups
NUM_BACKUPS_TO_KEEP=3

# Who wants to know when the backup failed, or
# when the binary logs didn't get applied
EMAIL=you@example.com

# Where you keep your backups
BACKUPDIR=/ebs/mysql/backups

# path to innobackupex
XTRABACKUP=/usr/bin/innobackupex

# Add any other files you never want to remove
NEVER_DELETE="lost\+found|\.|\.."

# The mysql user able to access all the databases
OPTIONS="--user=root"

# Shouldn't need to change these...
APPLY_LOG_OPTIONS="--apply-log"
BACKUP="$XTRABACKUP $OPTIONS $BACKUPDIR"
APPLY_BINARY_LOG="$XTRABACKUP $OPTIONS $APPLY_LOG_OPTIONS"
PREV=`ls -rt $BACKUPDIR | tail -n $((NUM_BACKUPS_TO_KEEP+1)) | head -n1 | egrep -v $NEVER_DELETE`

# run a backup
$BACKUP

if [ $? == 0 ]; then

  # we got a backup, now we need to apply the binary logs
  MOST_RECENT=`ls -rt $BACKUPDIR | tail -n1`
  $APPLY_BINARY_LOG $BACKUPDIR/$MOST_RECENT

  if [ $? == 0 ]; then
    # remove backups you don't want to keep
    rm -rf $BACKUPDIR/$PREV
  else
    echo "Couldn't apply the binary logs to the backup $BACKUPDIR/$MOST_RECENT" | mail $EMAIL -s "Mysql binary log didn't get applied to backup"
  fi

else
   # problem with initial backup :(
   echo "Couldn't do a mysql backup" | mail $EMAIL -s "Mysql backup failed"
fi