Here is simple backup script for Zabbix 2 configuration data (hosts, items, templates etc). It will not backup history/event/trend data, so backup file is relatively small.
Just replace ZBX_DB and ZBX_USER with Zabbix database name and username.
mysqldump -u ZBX_USER -p ZBX_DB \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.acknowledges \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.alerts \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.auditlog \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.auditlog_details \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.escalations \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.events \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.history \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.history_log \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.history_str \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.history_str_sync \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.history_sync \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.history_text \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.history_uint \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.history_uint_sync \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.trends \ --ignore-table=ZBX_DB.trends_uint \ | gzip > zbx_db.sql.gz
Hi there, please note that there is a GitHub project (currently overhauled by myself) that does the same task with some additional checks: https://github.com/maxhq/zabbix-backup
Regards, maxhq