Tasks

What is a task ?

Tasks are one of the core concept of the application. A task is a way to backup some data. It can be by creating a tarball, using the mysqldump program or any other method that fits your specific needs.

How to create a task ?

All the tasks are declared in the configuration file.
Each task MUST have at least:

• A name: The name of the task must be unique and must be a valid bash token name [a-zA-Z][a-ZA-Z0-9_]*
• A type: The type of the task
• A storage: The name of the storage you want to store the result of this backup to (see Storages)

Minimalist task

IB_TASK_name_TYPE="tarball"
IB_TASK_name_STORAGE="myStorage"

Notice that the name of the task is used in the variable name.
Don't forget to add the task name in the IB_TASKS variable See Configuration.

How to prune older backups

For each tasks you can specify a retention policy in a valid date(2) format.

IB_TASK_name_RETENTION="15days"

Exemple of valid retention:

• 15days (default)
• 1month
• 1hour
• 3year

Older backup will be prune AFTER a successfull backup is done.

Built-in task types

• Docker-mysql-dumper
• Mysql
• Subtask
• Tarball
• Tarball-incremental