NAME

MySQL::Backup - Perl extension for making backups of mysql DBs.

SYNOPSIS

  use MySQL::Backup;
  my $mb = new MySQL::Backup('database','127.0.0.1','user','password',{'USE_REPLACE' => 1, 'SHOW_TABLE_NAMES' => 1});
  print $mb->create_structure();
  print $mb->data_backup();

DESCRIPTION

MySQL::Backup should be useful for people, who needed in backuping mysql DBs by perl script and doesn't want to use mysqldump or doesn't able to do this.

Main Methods

$mb->create_structure() - returns structure of current database
$mb->data_backup() returns a full DATA backup of current database
$mb->table_data($tablename) - get all data from the table with $tablename
$mb->table_desc($tablename) - get a structure of inputed table
$mb->new_from_DBH($dbh) - if you have already DBI connection, you can use this
$mb->run_restore_script($filename) - Just DROPs all from current DB and run all sql from the specified file (param is filepath to needed file)
$mb->run_upgrade_script($filename) - opens file by set filepath, then analyzes differencies in proposed and current structures and tries to fix differencies in DB. For instance: you have 1 table in DB with 3 columns, and one string CREATE TABLE ... with same name in the file, but CREATE TABLE describes 4 columns,.. after running this you should have 4 columns in table in DB. Also, all INSERTs/REPLACEs from file will be executed(also, please be careful on execute stage all INSERTs will be changed to REPLACE)

Params

Params could be set on creating, like shown in example, or/and set/changed as you should see below:

$mb->{'param'}->{'USE_REPLACE'} - '1' means using REPLACE instead of INSERT
$mb->{'param'}->{'SHOW_TABLE_NAMES'} - '1' means outputing a string in data_backup that marks actions on which table should be done
$mb->{'param'}->{'tables'} - this param is a link to array with table names,.. can be used if you're needed to backup only few tables from DB (used by create_structure/data_backup)