Plugins

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ZRM for MySQL has plugins to extend/tailor the ZRM backups to suit MySQL server environment. Currently, six plugin interfaces are available.

  1. Pre Backup Plugin
  2. Post Backup Plugin
  3. Pre Scheduler Plugin
  4. Binary Log Parser Plugin
  5. Copy Plugin
  6. Snapshot Plugin

All plugins are optional. Templates of all plugins have been provided. These can be altered to suit the specific needs of each installation. If these are not sufficient, the user can write their own plugins and use those . Plugins can be written in any language/script and should be executable files. All plugins need to be specified along with their full path names.