Site Backup and Restore - Amazon S3 Bucket

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Taking backup of a huge site and database to amazon s3 bucket by manually or setting cron job to perform regular backups. View the docs/screenshots for steps of process.

How to?

• Installation & Configuration
• Taking backup only once.
• Setting cron for Automated Backups
• Restoration Process

Installation & Configuration:

1. Upload files to directory outside to the actual backup folder and make sure it is not publicly accessible.
2. Create config file inside “config” folder. Follow & copy example ini file.

Taking backup only once:

Just run the command in terminal/ ssh. Follow the instructions show in the terminal, backups will be copied to s3 after that.

php PATH_TO_SCRIPT/backup-cron.php start:true config:example

Setting cron for Automated Backups:

1. Make sure to have active config file inside config folder.
2. Add cron command Eg. “php PATH_TO_SCRIPT/backup-cron.php start:true config:example”
3. Only one backup process will be done at a time, hence a lock file is created. Lock file will be removed after performing backup process. If script is manually terminated or thread terminated abnormally then make sure that in “backupProcess.lock” file doesn’t exist in script folder. If exist remove it to retry the operation again.
4. If config IS_DO_DATABASE_BACKUP is set to true, database also be taken backup.
5. Check log file in logs if it requires some information about how process done.

Restoration Process:

1. Make sure to have active config file inside config folder.
2. Run command from console Eg. “php PATH_TO_SCRIPT/restoreConsole.php start:true config:example”
3. Only one restoration process will be done at a time, hence a lock file is created. Lock file will be removed after performing restoration process. If script is manually terminated or thread terminated abnormally then make sure that in “restoreProcess.lock” file doesn’t exist in script folder. If exist remove it.
4. If config has defined values to RESTORATION_CONFIG then it will be selected and shown by default. Else configs will be asked in the terminal.
5. Check log file in logs if it required.

Requirements:

It requires the following shell commands to be executable in the environment php, zip, unzip, mysqldump

Todo:

1. Setting auto delete of files in s3 bucket after preferred days.

Screen Shots: