Backup and Restore PiHole via Teleport but Curl

pihole-teleport-automation.md

HOST should resolve to your PiHole (here, it resolves via local DNS).

Pi-hole v5.9
FTL v5.14
Web Interface v5.11

Get (POST) a Backup

export HOST="thorn";
export FILENAME="backup.tar.gz";
export COOKIE=`curl -s -I -X GET http://${HOST}/admin/index.php | rg 'Set-Cookie' | awk -F: '{print $2}' | awk -F\; '{print $1}' | xargs`;
export TOKEN=`curl -b "${COOKIE}" -s http://${HOST}/admin/settings.php\?tab\=teleporter | rg 'input type="hidden" name="token" value="' | head -n1 | awk -F\" '{print $6}'`;
curl "http://${HOST}/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/teleporter.php" \
  -b "${COOKIE}" \
  -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0' \
  -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8' \
  -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' \
  -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' \
  -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  -H "Origin: http://${HOST}" \
  -H 'DNT: 1' \
  -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
  -H "Referer: http://${HOST}/admin/settings.php?tab=teleporter" \
  -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' \
  -H 'Sec-GPC: 1' \
  -H 'Pragma: no-cache' \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
  --form "zip_file=backup.tar.gz;type=application/x-gzip" \
  --form "token=${TOKEN}" \
  --form "whitelist=true" \
  --form "regex_whitelist=true" \
  --form "blacklist=true" \
  --form "regexlist=true" \
  --form "adlist=true" \
  --form "client=true" \
  --form "group=true" \
  --form "auditlog=true" \
  --form "staticdhcpleases=true" \
  --form "localdnsrecords=true" \
  --form "flushtables=true" \
  --output ${FILENAME}

Put (POST) a Backup

export HOST="thorn";
export FILENAME="backup.tar.gz";
export COOKIE=`curl -s -I -X GET http://${HOST}/admin/index.php | rg 'Set-Cookie' | awk -F: '{print $2}' | awk -F\; '{print $1}' | xargs`;
export TOKEN=`curl -b "${COOKIE}" -s http://${HOST}/admin/settings.php\?tab\=teleporter | rg 'input type="hidden" name="token" value="' | head -n1 | awk -F\" '{print $6}'`;
curl -vvvv "http://${HOST}/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/teleporter.php" \
  -b "${COOKIE}" \
  -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0' \
  -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8' \
  -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' \
  -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' \
  -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  -H "Origin: http://${HOST}" \
  -H 'DNT: 1' \
  -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
  -H "Referer: http://${HOST}/admin/settings.php?tab=teleporter" \
  -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' \
  -H 'Sec-GPC: 1' \
  -H 'Pragma: no-cache' \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
  --form "zip_file=@${FILENAME};type=application/x-gzip" \
  --form "token=${TOKEN}" \
  --form "whitelist=true" \
  --form "regex_whitelist=true" \
  --form "blacklist=true" \
  --form "regexlist=true" \
  --form "adlist=true" \
  --form "client=true" \
  --form "group=true" \
  --form "auditlog=true" \
  --form "staticdhcpleases=true" \
  --form "localdnsrecords=true" \
  --form "flushtables=true" \
  --form "action=in"