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database backup

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Backup, download or restore an entire database from within the Silverstripe CMS. Great for making a backup before a big change.

The module provide a modeladmin interface for creating, downloading and restoring backups.

Developer

Nicolaas Francken [at] sunnysideup.co.nz

Requirements

see composer.json

There are two other BIG requirements:

  • Your PHP environment allows you to run the exec command.
  • You are running a standard *nix flavour

The commands being run are:

  • mysqldump ....
  • mysql ... < myFile

With or without compression.

Compression Support

This module is supports gzip compression only at the moment.

Warning

This module is a DANGEROUS module because it runs PHP code on the command line and because you can replace the entire database with a (faulty / out-of-date) backup.

Installation Instructions

  1. Find out how to add modules to SS and add module as per usual.

  2. Review configs and add entries to mysite/_config/config.yml (or similar) as necessary. In the _config/ folder of this module you can usually find some examples of config options (if any).

  3. make sure to review databasebackup.yml.example file.

  4. it is a requirement to set the filelocation for the backup file (e.g. /var/backups/mybackupfile.sql). Dont worry about adding the .gz bit for gzip compression.