Daily Weekly and Monthly DB backup with logrotate?

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Published on 2010-02-24T11:15:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 20:03 UTC
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Hi,

I am currently keeping daily backup of my database by doing a daily mysqldump and by using logrotate to keep the 7 last days of mysqldump.

I would like to improve this backup process to keep 7 daily backup, 3 weekly backups and 12 monthly backup.

I found this article which explain how to di this with logrotate : http://www.hotcoding.com/os/sysadmin/35751.html

However I am using the dateext logrotate option to name my backup files so I cannot use this solution.

How can I do daily, weekly and monthly backup with logrotate and with the dateext option?

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