MySQL Backup To S3 Bucket

Posted on by Ulysses

Here’s my MySQL backup script to the S3 Bucket.

Just a couple of things about the script. It’s using …

  1. AWS CLI
  2. Mysqldump

They must be setup and configured to work properly.

#!/bin/bash
cd /root/database
TIMESTAMP=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
S3FILE="s3://bucketname/sqlbackup/backup-$TIMESTAMP.sql"
/usr/bin/mysqldump dbname > dbname.sql
/usr/local/bin/aws s3 cp dbname.sql $S3FILE
sleep 3s
rm dbname.sql

Finally, set the S3 bucket with a 7 day retention. Backups older than 7 days are automatically deleted.

Get Directory Size

Posted on by Ulysses

Here’s how to get the size of a directory.

du -sh /var/www

Output:

2.1GB    /var/www

Size of the directories and files one level down.

du -sh /var/www/*

Sort with biggest files from top to bottom.

du -sh /var/www/* | sort -rh

Top 5 biggest files from top to bottom.

du -sh /var/www/* | sort -rh | head -5

Git Diff Head

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Here’s how to check what’s changed in your local Git repo vs the master repo.

Git Status tells you what file has changed, but not to the level of detail such as what lines or what code was changed.

git diff HEAD

Recover MySQL Root Password

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How to recover a MySQL root password without a password.

  1. Stop MySQL.
  2. Start MySQL Safe Mode.
  3. Login to MySQL as root without password.
  4. Change root password.

# Stop MySQL.
service mysql stop
# MySQL Safe Mode.
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
# Login to MySQL without password. Set new password.
mysql -u root -p
use mysql;
# For MySQL 5.6 or lower
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpassword') WHERE User='root';
# For MySQL 5.7 or higher
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD("newpassword");
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
# Kill mysqld
killall mysqld
# Restart MySQL
service mysql start

I ran into issues running MySQL Safe mode. I got a “UNIX socket file don’t exists” error. Here’s the fix.

mkdir -p /var/run/mysqld
chown mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld