Magento backup

With this shell script you can create backups of your Magento installation, either database or files. The script is based on MagePsychos script.

Requirements / Prerequisites

• bash shell
• installed xmllint >=20901 (http://xmlsoft.org/xmllint.html)
• installed tar package
• installed ftp package
• make the script executable, i. e. via chmod +x magento_backup.sh
• place the script in your folder

Notes

• Please specify a project name in the configuration section of the script, see projectName variable
• The backup folder will be created in <Magento root>/var/backups

Usage

./magento-backup.sh -t <database|files|basesystem> -m <1|0> -b <1|0>

You've got three options how to run the script:

• -t: type of backup
  • database: Only the datase will be backuped as a .sql.gz archive
  • files: Only Magento files will be backuped as a .tar.gz archive. The folders var/ and includes/ as well as the .htaccess file are completly ignored and will not be saved. Please see the parameter -m for more options.
  • basesystem: For both files and database a backup will be created and optinally transferred to an ftp server.
• -m: skip media files
  • 0: Include all files in the media/ folder, product and category images, picture cache,...
  • 1: Exlude the entire media/ folder from being backuped
• -b: backup on external FTP server
  • 0: The backup file will not be transferred to any external ftp server
  • 1: The backup file will be transferred to an ftp server specified in the configuration section, see ftp_backup_host variable. Furthermore you need to have a .netrc with valid credentials for the ftp server. If you are unfamiliar with .netrc please see http://www.mavetju.org/unix/netrc.php for how to set up.

Contact

• If you encounter any problems or bugs, please create an issue on Github
• I am happy to merge in any improvements - just send me a pull request
• For any other things, send me a mail to holger.loesken@codedge.de