konjak/mysql-backup repository overview

⁠MySQL backup Docker image

Production ready Docker container for MySQL backup.

⁠Features - why using this image instead of several others?

• Uses alpine⁠ base image
• This image is as small as possible
• Uses linked MySQL DB
• Waits for MySQL container to be ready
• Uses cronjob to call backup script
• Writes .sql.bz2 files to /backup for every database in the linked MySQL server

⁠Usage

sudo docker run \
  -v ./backup:/backup \
  -e MYSQL_HOST=db \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password \
  konjak/mysql-backup

⁠Status

Production stable.