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Backing up small wp site with DB

Backup for small WP sites using dropbox and wp-cli and 🎩

Go to : https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps

Create new app call it anything it's gonna be your private app.

Generated access token and save it somewhere in your locker 😄

Download file backup-site.sh and change directories path and DROPBOX_TOKEN

sudo chmod +x backup-site.sh

Setup crontab with crontab -e add following line there

0 5 * * * /root/backup-sites.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

This will backup site everyday at 5 am.

Notes:

  • This scripts assumes your installation will be under example.com/htdocs if not it's time to fork this and modify script.
  • This will backup your WP tables and wp-content folder.
  • You can also change path of backup-sites.sh.
  • You should clean up your dropbox folder before you run out of memory.
  • Modify crontab if you want to change backup interval to less frequent or more frequent.

##Credit:

#!/bin/bash
# Generate your Dropbox token: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps
DROPBOX_TOKEN={dropbox access token here}
# Directory that holds your WordPress sites' root folders
PREFIX=/var/www
# If you have multiple folders with WordPress sites, add/remove them from this array
directories=( "foo.com" "bar.com" )
for dir in "${directories[@]}"
do
:
printf "Backing up $PREFIX/$dir \n"
cd $PREFIX/$dir/htdocs
printf "Exporting database... \n"
DATABASE_FILENAME=$dir.sql
wp db export --add-drop-table $DATABASE_FILENAME --allow-root
cd ..
printf "Compressing directory... \n"
BACKUP_FILENAME=$dir.$(date -d today "+%Y%m%d").tar.gz
tar czf $BACKUP_FILENAME htdocs/$DATABASE_FILENAME htdocs/wp-content/
printf "Uploading to Dropbox... \n"
curl -k --progress-bar -i --globoff -o /tmp/dropbox --upload-file $BACKUP_FILENAME https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files_put/auto/$BACKUP_FILENAME -H "Authorization:Bearer $DROPBOX_TOKEN"
printf "Removing files... \n"
rm htdocs/$DATABASE_FILENAME $BACKUP_FILENAME
printf "Done!"
done
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