#!/bin/bash # Backup a database *locally* to /backups/. # Sleep a bit so we do not have a thundering herd on db hosts sleep $[ ( $RANDOM % 7200 ) + 1 ]s DB=anitya # Make our latest backup # Make it use a limited number of threads because pxz will use all the # cpus which causes pg_dump to starve which causes... /usr/bin/pg_dump --exclude-table-data users --exclude-table-data tokens --exclude-table-data 'social*' --exclude-table-data sessions -C $DB | /usr/bin/pxz -T4 > /backups/$DB-public-$(date +%F).dump.xz # Also, delete the backup from a few days ago. rm -f /backups/$DB-public-$(date --date="1 days ago" +%F).dump.xz