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.

Nicolaas Francken [at] sunnysideup.co.nz

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.

This module is supports gzip compression only at the moment.

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module because it runs PHP code on the command line and because you can replace the entire database with a (faulty / out-of-date) backup.

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.