Readme | Installation | Requirements | Configuration | Security | Compression | Encryption | Examples | Contributing
| Program | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bourne shell (sh) | yes | The whole script is written in pure bourne shell (sh) and is 100% Posix compliant |
| mysql | yes | The mysql binary is used to find all available databases and their corresponding size |
| mysqldump | yes | This is used for the actual dump procedure |
| openssl | optional | Optionally used for private/public key encrypting the database dump |
| gzip | optional | Optionally used for compressing the database dump |
| pigz | optional | Optionally used for compressing the database dump (multithreaded) |
| bzip2 | optional | Optionally used for compressing the database dump |
| pbzip2 | optional | Optionally used for compressing the database dump (multithreaded) |
| xz | optional | Optionally used for compressing the database dump |
| lzma | optional | Optionally used for compressing the database dump |
| lzop | optional | Optionally used for compressing the database dump |
| tmpwatch | optional | Optionally used to delete old database dumps |
| tmpreaper | optional | Optionally used to delete old database dumps |
| check_mysqldump-secure | optional | Optionally used to monitor the dump via nagios (already bundled as a submodule inside this repository) |