Lenz Grimmer's blog

I am happy to announce that version 0.2 of the mylvmbackup tool is now available!

mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly performing backups of a MySQL server's databases using the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM). It creates a consistent LVM snapshot of the server's data directory which is then backed up without further blocking the server's operation.

After version 0.1 was published in May this year, I did not really get much feedback about it. I had some ideas for improvements (see the TODO file included in the package), but never got around to actually start working on them.

Thanks to Robin H. Johnson from the Gentoo project for contributing a number of new options and features as well as some code cleanups. His changes motivated me to make a few more modifications and improvements by myself, which have now been rolled into a new release.

The new options provide some more flexibility in the way the script handles the logical volumes and how the backup files are being created. I also overhauled the building and packaging and added a Makefile to automate these procedures. For details, please refer to the ChangeLog and check the manual page and the README for additional info.

A tarball and RPM of version 0.2 can now be downloaded from the project page.

The SVN repository can now be browsed using WebSVN as well.

Please give it a try! Your feedback is very welcome.