To back up the data stored within your MySQL Enterprise Service Manager, you can use any of the typical backup solutions, such as the MySQL Enterprise Backup product or the mysqldump command, to back up the repository database. Once this database grows to substantial size, you might find that the binary copy technique of the MySQL Enterprise Backup product is faster (especially for restoring) than a logical backup using the mysqldump command. For details, see MySQL Enterprise Backup User's Guide (Version 3.8.1).

To back up the MySQL Enterprise Monitor data, you specify the host name, user name, and password that were set during the installation of the MySQL Enterprise Service Manager. Locate this information in the configuration_report.txt file that was generated when MySQL Enterprise Service Manager was installed. The following example shows a typical report file:

MySQL Enterprise Monitor (Version 2.0.0.7088 : 20081031_152749_r7088)

Here are the settings you specified:
Application hostname and port: http://127.0.0.1:18080
Tomcat Ports: 18080 - 18443 (SSL)
MySQL Port : 13306

Repository Credentials (bundled MySQL):
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service_manager/Password

Use the following command to login to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor database:
mysql -uservice_manager -pPassword -P13306 -h127.0.0.1

The last line provides the information about how to connect to the server using the standard mysql command line client.

All the MySQL Enterprise Monitor repository information, including your configuration, rule and historical data is stored within the mem database.

To back up this information using mysqldump, you might use the following command:

shell> mysqldump --single-transaction -uservice_manager -pPassword -P13306 -h127.0.0.1 mem >mem.dump

The above command creates a file, mem.dump, containing all of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor data.

To ensure consistency in a recovery situation, you may also want to back up the agent configuration and metadata stored on each monitored MySQL server. To do this:

In case the backup process makes the Service Manager unresponsive for a time, you might also adjust the agent-backlog-timeout setting as appropriate, to avoid losing data from the agents during a backup of the repository database.