Sunday, April 5, 2015

Kodi mysql backups

When you've got multiple XBMC/Kodi nodes all sharing same media library, it's good to use MySQL as a single database, but also means you're putting all eggs in 1 basket, so you're only a disk or dodgy upgrade away from losing the library data.

I have a little backup script:
#!/bin/sh

DIR=/path/db_backup
DATE=i$(date "+%d%m%y")

mysqldump -u root -pyour_pwd --all-databases > $DIR/db_backup_$DATE.sql
gzip $DIR/db_backup_$DATE.sql


And an archiver
find  /root/db_backup -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
Might be safer ways of doing this - so make sure you've got the path right ;)

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