A tool to backup Colorfront project databases. Not affiliated with Colorfront.

What it does

1. Query the SQL database to find out which projects have been udpated since the last backup
2. Dump those schemas with mysqldump
3. Copy the SQL dump along with the project's PHP scripts into a compressed tarball and label it by date.

Installation

Optional: Build a binary with PyInstaller to make Python interpreter self-contained.

pyinstaller cf_backup.spec

If you cloned the git repo, the binary will be generated with git commit number. Rename it to simply cf_backup and copy to a reasonable location such as /usr/local/bin. Assuming you are running on linux, add a cron job like this:

0 23 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/cf_backup /mnt/path/to/your/archive | logger -t cf_backup

This will schedule it for 11pm every weekday and pipe the logs to syslog. You can view the logs later with journalctl -t cf_backup.

Advanced option: If your SQL database is running on a different host than this code, configure options in ~/.my.cnf e.g.

[client]
protocol=tcp
host=
user=
pass=

Usage

Documentation is self-contained with the -help option:

usage: cf_backup.py [-h] [--version] [--webroot WEBROOT] [--mysqldump MYSQLDUMP] [--mysql MYSQL] [--verbose] output

Backup Colorfront projects which have changed since last time.  MySQL and PHP scripts will be archived to a compressed tarball. Example usage piped to CentOS syslog: 
        ./cf_backup /mnt/archive/colorfront/ | logger -t cf_backup

positional arguments:
  output                directory to save the backups

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             prints application version
  --webroot WEBROOT, -w WEBROOT
                        location of Apache webroot directory (htdocs)
  --mysqldump MYSQLDUMP, -d MYSQLDUMP
                        path to mysqldump binary; search PATH if not provided
  --mysql MYSQL, -m MYSQL
                        path to mysql binary; search PATH if not provided
  --verbose, -v         print extra debugging info

Requirements

• MySQL 5.7 or similar version (MariaDB 10.3, etc) binaries available in PATH
• Python 3.5+
• Read access to Apache webroot. e.g. /var/www/html
• Regular database schema from Colorfront OSD/ExD