mariadb-backup

The mariadb-backup Docker image will provide you a container to backup and restore a MySQL or MariaDB database container.

The backup is made with mydumper, a fast MySQL backup utility.

Usage

To backup a MySQL or MariaDB database, you simply specify the credentials and the host. You can optionally specify the database as well.

Environment variables

Variable	FILE Support	Default	Mandatory	Description
DB_HOST	DB_HOST__FILE	-	yes	The host to connect to
DB_PASS	DB_PASS__FILE	-	yes	The password for the SQL server
DB_NAME	DB_NAME__FILE	-	no	If specified, only this database will be backed up
DB_PORT	N/A	3306	no	The port of the SQL server
DB_USER	DB_USER__FILE	root	no	The user to connect to the SQL server
MODE	N/A	BACKUP	no	One of BACKUP or RESTORE
BASE_DIR	N/A	/backup	no	Path of the base directory (aka working directory)
RESTORE_DIR	N/A	-	no	Name of a backup directory to restore
BACKUP_UID	N/A	666	no	UID of the backup
BACKUP_GID	N/A	666	no	GID of the backup
UMASK	N/A	0022	no	Umask which should be used to write the backup files
OPTIONS	N/A	-c / -o	no	Options passed to mydumper / myloader

The following environment variables support setting via *__FILE, where

Please note the backup will be written to /backup by default, so you might want to mount that directory from your host.

Example Docker CLI client

To create a backup from a MySQL container via docker CLI client:

docker run --name my-backup -e DB_HOST=mariadb -e DB_PASS=amazing_pass -v /var/mysql_backups:/backup registry.gitlab.com/ix.ai/mariadb-backup:latest

The container will stop automatically as soon as the backup has finished. To create more backups in the future simply start your container again:

docker start my-backup

To restore a backup into a MySQL container via docker CLI client:

docker run --name my-restore -e DB_HOST=mariadb -e DB_PASS=amazing_pass -e MODE=RESTORE -v /var/mysql_backups:/backup registry.gitlab.com/ix.ai/mariadb-backup:latest

Script example

To back up multiple databases, all running in docker, all labeled with mariadb-backup:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
/bin/mkdir -p /mariadb-backup

/usr/bin/docker pull registry.gitlab.com/ix.ai/mariadb-backup:latest

for CONTAINER in $(/usr/bin/docker ps -f label=mariadb-backup --format='{{.Names}}'); do
  DB_PASS=$(/usr/bin/docker inspect ${CONTAINER}|/usr/bin/jq -r '.[0]|.Config.Env[]|select(test("^MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD.*"))'|/bin/sed -n 's/^MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=\(.*\)/\1/p')
  DB_NAME=$(/usr/bin/docker inspect ${CONTAINER}|/usr/bin/jq -r '.[0]|.Config.Env[]|select(test("^MARIADB_DATABASE.*"))'|/bin/sed -n 's/^MARIADB_DATABASE=\(.*\)/\1/p')
  DB_NET=$(/usr/bin/docker inspect ${CONTAINER}|/usr/bin/jq -r '.[0]|.NetworkSettings.Networks|to_entries[]|.key')
  if [[ -n "${DB_PASS}" ]]; then
    /usr/bin/docker run --rm --name ${CONTAINER}-backup -e DB_PASS=${DB_PASS} -e DB_HOST=${CONTAINER} -e DB_NAME=${DB_NAME} --network ${DB_NET} -v /mariadb-backup:/backup registry.gitlab.com/ix.ai/mariadb-backup:latest
  fi
done

Configuration

Mode

By default the container backups the database. However, you can change the mode of the container by setting the following environment variable:

• MODE: Sets the mode of the backup container while [BACKUP|RESTORE]

Base directory

By default the base directory /backup is used. However, you can overwrite that by setting the following environment variable:

• BASE_DIR: Path of the base directory (aka working directory)

Restore directory

By default the container will automatically restore the latest backup found in BASE_DIR. However, you can manually set the name of a backup directory underneath BASE_DIR:

• RESTORE_DIR: Name of a backup directory to restore

This option is only required when the container runs in in RESTORE mode.

UID and GID

By default the backup will be written with UID and GID 666. However, you can overwrite that by setting the following environment variables:

• BACKUP_UID: UID of the backup
• BACKUP_GID: GID of the backup

umask

By default a umask of 0022 will be used. However, you can overwrite that by setting the following environment variable:

• UMASK: Umask which should be used to write the backup files

mydumper / myloader CLI options

By default mydumper is invoked with the -c (compress backup) and myloader with the -o (overwrite tables) CLI option. However, you can modify the CLI options by setting the following environment variable:

• OPTIONS: Options passed to mydumper (when MODE is BACKUP) or myloader (when MODE is RESTORE)

Tags and Arch

Starting with version v0.0.3, the images are multi-arch, with builds for amd64, arm64, armv7. Support for armv6 has been dropped.

• vN.N.N - for example v0.0.2
• latest - always pointing to the latest version
• dev-master - the last build on the master branch

Resources

• Gitlab Registry: registry.gitlab.com/ix.ai/mariadb-backup - gitlab.com/ix.ai/mariadb-backup
• GitHub Registry: ghcr.io/ix-ai/mariadb-backup github.com/ix-ai/mariadb-backup
• Docker Hub: ixdotai/mariadb-backup - hub.docker.com/r/ixdotai/mariadb-backup

Credits

Special thanks to confirm/docker-mysql-backup, which this project uses heavily.