S3 Bucket automated Backup

We all have come to the point when we need to decide what to do about backing up a website. There are many solutions out there.  I had the necessity to backup many websites and have also a quick way to manage it across many instances of Wordpress. I am going to share with you my solution and I would really appreciate your feedback about it.

Getting Started

SSH into your Linux instance (ubuntu in my case) and clone the repo in the backup folder. Create the folder /home/ubuntu/backup/repo/ folder

Prerequisites

There are not specific requirement. Just maske sure you are running the last updated version of Ubuntu.

Installing

Clone the repo then add the cronjob by

crontab -e

then add the cronjob, in my case I am exectuting a backup at midnight:

0 0 * * * /home/ubuntu/backup/backup.sh "/home/ubuntu/backup/repo" "your-s3-backup-folder" "your-wordpress-document-root-absolute-path" "your-db-name" > /home/ubuntu/backup/backup.log

This will enable an automated backup every midnight.

The Bash Script is explained in the following medium article:

https://medium.com/@domenicorutigliano/how-to-automate-your-wordpress-site-backup-to-amazon-s3-using-a-bash-script-b355d147262d?sk=f47710e4f12b5ba7844c33e2d2e4c21f

Versioning

We use Gitlab for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Domenico Rutigliano - Senior Software Engineer - WPOpera

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details