Checking Backup Configuration

he action check of mysql-zrm command is used to verify that ZRM for MySQL is correctly configured for the backup set.

It performs following checks for a particular backup set:

• It is able to read and write to the destination directory.
• Whether the TMPDIR is writable.
• If /etc/mysql-zrm/<backup-set name> is writable.
• Whether mysql-zrm is able to connect to MySQL server.

mysql-zrm  --action check

• Specify the backup set you to whose configuration you want to check. The command will be

mysql-zrm --action check --backup-set Backupset1

• The action returns the following when the configuration is correct.

INFO: ZRM for MySQL - version built from source
WARNING: Binary logging is off. Incremental backups cannot be done.
INFO: Configuration check successful

• If the configuration is incorrect it will exit with a set of error messages that reflect the problems found. The following is an example of the returned error

INFO: ZRM for MySQL - version built from source
ERROR: Unable to open logfile /var/log/mysql-zrm/mysql-zrm.log.
ERROR: No write permission in /var/lib/mysql-zrm
ERROR: No write permission in /etc/mysql-zrm/BackupSet1
ERROR: No write permissions on /etc/mysql-zrm/BackupSet1/last_backup
ERROR: Errors found during configuration check