WPEB (WordPress Easy Backup): A simple (pre-update) wordpress backup script.

(c) 2017 Madalin Tache

http://github.com/niladam/wpeb

A simple bash script that takes a snapshot of the current WordPress directory and database. The archive will contain a database dump, and an entire archive of the current WordPress installation. Optionally, it can INCLUDE the uploads folder but this might result in a a huge archive file on large sites.

WPEB (WordPress Easy Backup) is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (optionally) any later version.

Breakdown

Currently the plugin is depending on wp-cli By default the plugin does the following:

Checks if wp-cli exists in /usr/local/bin/wp
Check is the current cwd is a WordPress install (currently prone to errors, needs fixing)
Automatically runs a repair and optimize on the database
Dumps the database using wp-cli (the file is usually DBNAME.sql)
Compresses the exported database using bzip2
Compresses everything in the cwd (in the future an exclude option will be provided) (in a tar archive)
Ignores the uploads folder in wp-content (to prevent large databases) (This is a pre-update backup script, right ?)
gzips everything with the best compression level.

Installing

Install with:

curl -sSL https://wpeb-installer.includes.io | bash

Updating

If you want to update the script you can use two options. Either run the same command as the install (will auto-update if needed), or use the built-in updater

wpeb --up

wpeb --self-update

Using

For now, the plugin will only function if called from the main WordPress folder.

Use with:

cd /home/someuser/public_html
wpeb

Command Options

    [FLAGS]
        --su=, --skip-uploads=      yes/no (Defaults to yes, skipping uploads folder)
                                    yes: include uploads
                                    no:  skip uploads

        --ro=, --repair-optimize=   yes/no (Defaults to yes, repair and optimize db)
                                    yes: repair and optimize db
                                    no:  skip repairing and optimizing

        --co=, --compression=       1-9 (Defaults to 9, compression rate)
                                    1 - fastest (compression, largest file)
                                    9 - best (compression, smallest file)

        --of=, --output-folder=     Defaults to the site's root directory.
                                    Absolute folder path
                                    EG: /srv/backups/
                                    Folder will be created if it doesn't exist.

        --up, --self-update         Self update this script to the latest version.
                                    Uses curl if available and fallsback to wget,
                                    if curl is missing.

        --h, --help                 This help screen.

TODO

Have a look at the TODO list.