Unmaintained Backing up xenForo using a shell script and crontab 1.0

XenForo backup script
Made because I hate doing this manually!

You will need

• SSH access
• pigz or pbzip2 installed (if you want to use the faster, multi-core compression methods)
• An Amazon S3 account (and s3put installed) if you want to sync your SQL backups with AWS
• A little experience with the Linux shell environment

How to use

1. Download backup_script.sh from the repo
2. Save the backup script somewhere you'll remember. For example /home/backups
3. Make it executable with chmod +x backup_script.sh
4. Fill out the config variables (see below)
5. Add a crontab entry to run every night at a time when your site is likely to be less busy. Something like this will do:
   Code:

   0 3 * * * /home/backups/backup_script.sh

   (this will run at 3am every night)

Config variables

• db_username - The username for your SQL database
• db_password - The passsword for your SQL database
• db_name - The name of your database
• compression_method - The compression executable that will be run. Choose between pigz, pbzip2 orgzip
• backup_path - The location you want your backup files saved
• web_dir - The location of your xenForo installation
• bucket_name (optional) - The Amazon S3 bucket name and directory in which to sync the SQL backups

Future Updates
As this resource is a GitHub repository, updates will be posted there. I will try to update this resource every time I revise the backup script, but it's relatively mature (I've been using it for a while now) so shouldn't need too much maintenance.

I'll try to answer any questions you may have, but as I work on this in my (limited) spare time, please allow some time for a response.