Call via crontab on whatever schedule suits you; keep n full mysql Percona xtrabackups of your mysql database, with binary logs applied. Also does a full mysqldump that can then have the binary logs applied to restore to a point-in-time backup via the binlogs. Copy all of this (backup, mysqldump, binlogs) to S3.

percona-xtrabackup.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Carries out a full mysqldump, calls percona-xtrabackup and then
# copies the sql dump, the percona backup and your mysql bin logs
# to S3 using s3cmd http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
# 
# TODO: extract out the S3 backup stuff to make it optional, and so
# other s3 programs can replace the s3cmd call.
# TODO: the if [ $? == 0 ] alert blocks should be a function
# TODO: make the if [ $? == 0 ] if [ $? != 0 ] more consistent - test
#       for failure first in all cases

# 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
EMAIL=you@example.com

# Your mysql bucket, where the backups and dumps will get
# copied to
S3_BUCKET=logs.example.com/mysql

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

# The folder in $BACKUPDIR where you'll keep your mysqldumps
DUMPS=dumps
DUMPDIR=$BACKUPDIR/$DUMPS

# How you'll do a mysqldump
# the --master-data=2 means we're able to do point-in-time recovery
# using the binlogs that we'll also backup
MYSQLDUMP=/usr/bin/mysqldump
MYSQLDUMP_OPTIONS="-u root -h 127.0.0.1 --all-databases --single-transaction --default-character-set=latin1 --skip-set-charset --master-data=2"

# Where your mysql binary logs live
MYSQL_BIN_LOG_DIR=/var/mysql/lib/mysql

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

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

# 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"

# The dumps and percona backups we'll be removing
PREV=$(ls $BACKUPDIR | sort | grep -v "$(ls $BACKUPDIR | tail -n $NUM_BACKUPS_TO_KEEP)" | grep -v $DUMPDIR)
PREVDUMP=$(ls $DUMPDIR | sort | grep -v "$(ls $DUMPDIR | tail -n $NUM_DUMPS_TO_KEEP)")

# do a mysqldump
$DUMP | /bin/gzip -9 > $DUMPDIR/$(date +%Y%m%d_%H:%M).sql.gz

# we got a full dump
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
  # only remove if $PREVDUMP is set
  if [ -n "$PREVDUMP" ]; then
    # remove dumps you don't want to keep
    cd $DUMPDIR && rm -rf $PREVDUMP
    if [ $? != 0 ]; then
      echo "Looks like there was a problem deleting $PREVDUMP in $DUMPDIR" | mail $EMAIL -s "Couldn't remove $PREVDUMP in $DUMPDIR"
    fi
  fi 
else
  echo "Couldn't do the mysqldump to $DUMPDIR" | mail $EMAIL -s "mysqldump to $DUMPDIR failed"
fi

# run a backup
$BACKUP

if [ $? == 0 ]; then

  # we got a backup, now we need to apply the binary logs
  MOST_RECENT=$(ls $BACKUPDIR | grep -v $DUMPS | sort | tail -n1)
  
  # ensure the generated cnf file used by xtrabackup has innodb_file_per_table set
  # otherwise using the --export switch will fail
  echo "innodb_file_per_table" >> $BACKUPDIR/$MOST_RECENT/backup-my.cnf
  $APPLY_BINARY_LOG $BACKUPDIR/$MOST_RECENT

  # binary logs were applied OK, so we have a brand new percona backup
  # so remove older backups we don't need
  if [ $? == 0 ]; then 
    # only remove if $PREV is set
    if [ -n "$PREV" ]; then
      # remove backups you don't want to keep
      cd $BACKUPDIR && rm -rf $PREV
      if [ $? != 0 ]; then
        echo "Looks like there was a problem deleting $PREV in $BACKUPDIR"    
      fi
    fi
    
    # Sync the percona backups to S3
    # ionice the s3 sync, so we don't block the mysql server
    /usr/bin/ionice -c 2 -n 6 /usr/bin/s3cmd sync --delete-removed $BACKUPDIR/* s3://$S3_BUCKET/backups/
    
    # alert if the s3 sync failed
    if [ $? != 0 ]; then
      echo "Looks like there was a problem with the mysql backup syncing to S3" | mail $EMAIL -s "Couldn't copy mysql backup to S3"
    else
      # now back up the latest binlogs too, we'll need these if we want to do a point-in-time restore (which the mysqldump is prepped for)
      /usr/bin/ionice -c 2 -n 6 /usr/bin/s3cmd sync --delete-removed $MYSQL_BIN_LOG_DIR/mysql-bin* s3://$S3_BUCKET/binlogs/
      if [ $? != 0 ]; then
        echo "Couldn't sync the SQL binlogs to S3 - you won't be able do a point-in-time recovery" | mail $EMAIL -s "Mysql binlogs not copied to S3"
      fi      
    fi
          
  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 $ALERT -s "Mysql backup failed"
fi

+1 taf2

Thanks @taf2

The first exec. is removing the BACKUPDIR folder, so I needed comment line 42 for first exec.
I'm using Centos 6.4.

Thanks

need to check $PREV not empty

if [ -n "$PREV" ]; then
  # remove backups you don't want to keep
  rm -rf $BACKUPDIR/$PREV
fi

ref :http://www.percona.com/forums/questions-discussions/percona-xtrabackup/11300-less-verbosity-for-innobackupex

it's good to put log into a file

Thanks @caot

Thanks for this!

I've hacked for a multisystem setup using an option file and sane defaults if it isn't otherwise set. I've also enabled compression to save space which isn't directly compatible with apply logs so I've left that section alone until I need to restore. Also handy is the explicit permissions the backup user needs if you don't want to use root. https://gist.github.com/joshboon/8720296

Nice start, but did have a question - if BACKUPDIR is just created, the PREV logic doesn't allow for you to "get 3 backups" - it creates a backup and then removes it on the next run. To get around this I created my backup directory and then did "mkdir 1 2 3 4 5 6 7" to create 7 initial entries that eventually get fully replaced by 7 backups.

This is great and, I may fork it to use with Monit to ensure the backup succeeded.

Thanks!

Thankds @caot - updated with your change

./percona-xtrabackup.sh: line 87: /backup/percona-xtrabackup.sh/backup-my.cnf: Not a directory
Could not open required defaults file: /backup/percona-xtrabackup.sh/backup-my.cnf
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
innobackupex: got a fatal error with the following stacktrace: at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 4545
main::get_option('innodb_data_file_path') called at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 2631
main::apply_log() called at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 1578
innobackupex: Error: no 'innodb_data_file_path' option in group 'mysqld' in server configuration file '' at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 4545.