Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill database-backupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills/database-backup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills/database-backup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00041 | $0.02166 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.01083 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00433 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00217 |
Grade C, and why
database-backup scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
"$BACKUP_DIR"/dump_[0-9]*) rm -rf -- "$DUMP_DIR" ;; How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Database Backup
This skill enables an AI agent to plan and execute database backup strategies across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. The agent selects the appropriate backup type (full, incremental, differential, or point-in-time), generates backup scripts with compression and encryption, configures automated scheduling via cron or similar tools, defines retention policies, and verifies backup integrity through restore tests.
Workflow
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Assess backup requirements: Determine the database type, size, acceptable data loss window (Recovery Point Objective), and acceptable downtime (Recovery Time Objective). Identify whether the backup must be consistent (application-level locks or snapshots) and whether the database can tolerate brief locking during the backup.
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Select backup strategy: Choose the appropriate backup type based on requirements. Full backups capture the entire database and are simplest to restore but slowest to create. Incremental backups capture only changes since the last backup, saving time and storage. Differential backups capture changes since the last full backup, offering a middle ground. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) uses write-ahead logs or oplogs to restore to any moment, providing the lowest RPO.
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Generate backup scripts: Produce shell scripts that invoke the correct backup tool for the target database. Include compression (gzip, lz4, or zstd), optional encryption (GPG or OpenSSL), timestamped filenames, and error handling with exit codes. Script should log output for monitoring.
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Configure scheduling and retention: Set up automated execution using cron, systemd timers, or a task scheduler. Define a retention policy (e.g., keep 7 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly backups) and implement cleanup of expired backups to manage storage usage.
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Verify backup integrity: After each backup, verify the file is non-empty and checksums are valid. Periodically perform a test restore to a staging environment to confirm the backup is actually recoverable. Alert on verification failures.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 11d ago First seen · 161 lines · 41 tokens per session scan C 3fd67a59f609
database-backup is a skill published in the GitHub repository seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills (179 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,166 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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