MYSQL-ZRM.CONF(5)

🌸 mysql-zrm.conf — the config file for ZRM for MySQL (manual section 5) 🌸

okay so bestie, gather round, because this little file is literally the main character of your whole backup setup 💖

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💅 NAME 💅

mysql-zrm.conf — the configuration file for ZRM for MySQL. periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/etc/mysql-zrm/mysql-zrm.conf

/etc/mysql-zrm/backup_set_name/mysql-zrm.conf

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So mysql-zrm.conf is where all the site-wide (or backup-set specific, if you're feeling fancy) parameters live — the ones that control how the whole ZRM for MySQL suite operates. it's giving control room energy fr fr 👑

Wanna give a particular backup set its own custom vibe? You do that by writing those parameters in a mysql-zrm.conf file that lives inside a /etc/mysql-zrm/backup set name/ directory. Or you can pass --options conf_file on most of the command line utilities. Either way works 💅

Here's the hierarchy tea: parameters (and --options) that you specify on the command line override both the site-wide and the backup-set specific parameters. command line wins, no cap.

also lowkey important: if certain parameters are not specified in the the site-wide mysql-zrm.conf file, the ZRM for MySQL suite can also use the MySQL options file (my.cnf) parameters. she's flexible like that 🧚

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🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

This section is all about how you actually write stuff in mysql-zrm.conf. Every single parameter goes like this:

<parameter>=<value>

All parameters are optional — if you don't specify one, an appropriate 'factory default' just slides in. iconic behavior ✨

All white space is ignored unless it's quoted. And every line starting with # is a comment, meaning it gets ignored. so go ahead and leave yourself little love notes, nobody's reading them 🙈

Parameters can be:

• Backup parameters — comment, backup-level, backup-mode, lvm-snapshot, destination, retention-policy, replication, compress, compress-plugin, encrypt, encrypt-plugin, decrypt-option
• Database parameters — all-databases, databases, tables, database
• MySQL server parameters — user, password, host, port, socket, ssl-options, mysql-binpath, mysql-binlogpath, tmpdir
• ZRM parameters — verbose, mailto, html-report-directory, html-reports, webserver-url, rss-header-location
• ZRM plugin parameters — copy-plugin, pre-backup-plugin, pre-backup-plugin-options, post-backup-plugin, post-backup-plugin-options, pre-scheduler-plugin, passfile, ssh-user, remote-mysql-binpath, socket-remote-port

Descriptions of the ZRM for MySQL parameters and their values are available in mysql-zrm(1) and the Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL manual at http://mysqlbackup.zmanda.com/ 📚

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/mysql-zrm/mysql-zrm.conf — the global configuration file, the queen of the whole setup 👑
• /etc/mysql-zrm/backup set name/mysql-zrm.conf — configuration file ZRM for MySQL.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

mysql-zrm(1), mysql-zrm-backup(1), mysql-zrm-manage-backup(1), mysql-zrm-restore(1), mysql-zrm-check(1), mysql-zrm-list(1), mysql-zrm-parse-binlogs(1), mysql-zrm-purge(1), mysql-zrm-extract-backup(1), mysql-zrm-verify-backup(1), mysql-zrm-abort-backup(1), mysql-zrm-scheduler(1), mysql-zrm-reporter(1)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Zmanda Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

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and that's the whole page bestie, we ate 💅✨

signing off with love from Zmanda, Inc. — this is ZRM for MySQL, and you've been reading mysql-zrm.conf(5). go forth and configure responsibly 🫶🌸