drupal db export

drupal-db-export

Export the Drupal database to a compressed SQL dump file.

Usage

/drupal-db-export
/drupal-db-export name=my-backup

What it does

1. Resolves Drush (Docker container or local fallback).
2. Runs drush sql:dump and saves the output to /workspace/.
3. Compresses the file with gzip.
4. Reports the file path and size.

Output

Files are saved to /workspace/ with a timestamp in the name:

/workspace/db-export-20240515-143022.sql.gz

Pass name=my-backup to use a custom filename prefix instead of db-export.

Notes

• Requires the Docker stack to be running (database must be accessible).
• The dump includes all tables and data. To exclude specific tables (e.g. cache tables), ask the agent to run a custom drush command.
• Files in /workspace/ persist across container restarts and are visible in the file browser.

Related skills

• drupal-db-import — import a dump back into the database
• drupal-db-query — run individual SQL queries