Backup file name without timestamp

[philippe-levan]

It is difficult to recover an old backup in an incremental backup because the backup name changes every day and is not predictable.

Reproduce de issue

• use kibatic/mysql-backup to backup a mysql docker
• save the backup is an incremendal backup system (like rdiff-backup for example)
• try to recover a backup 5 days old

As the file 5 days old is removed and contains a timestamp (with minutes and seconds), I need to guess the file name (unpredictable because of the seconds) to run the recover command.

Solution proposition

In this line, you define the name of the backup with a timestamp.

https://github.com/kibatic/docker-mysql-backup/blob/master/backup-scripts/backup.sh#L16

It would be easier to use if the backup file name was always the same. After that, we don't need the deletion system anymore.

[jcrombez]

Not having a date in the file name breaks the ability to have multiple backups, which is useful when not using an incremental system.
So if something like this were to be supported, it would need to be an option but i does sounds like a nice feature to have.

[johnjohn8209]

Hi i'm having a problem to remove some Timestamps from my backup made by windows and i formatted the original backup device but the files are all on my pc but they still have a timestamp.
Is there some code or exe that just rename the files without the filestamp?

[jcrombez]

@johnjohn8209 you are not on the right Github project.