wp vackup

This is a WP-CLI based backup solution for WordPress. You can create backups of the files and the DB, and restore the sites back from them.

With the alias function of the WP CLI, this command helps you to reduce workload on managing multiple sites.

$ wp @all vackup create

See more about alias: https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/config/#config-files

Requires

• WP-CLI 0.23 or later

Getting Started

$ mkdir -p ~/.wp-cli/commands && cd -
$ git clone git@github.com:vccw-team/wp-cli-vackup.git

Add following into your ~/.wp-cli/config.yml.

require:
  - commands/wp-cli-vackup/cli.php

Configuration

You can configure the default directory to store backups.

vackup:
  dir: /Users/miya0001/backups

See more about configuration: https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/config/

Subcommands

• wp vackup create: Create a .zip archive from WordPress. It contains files and database.
• wp vackup restore: Restore the WordPress site from a .zip archive.
• wp vackup server: Launch a temporary WordPress site with PHP built-in web server.

Backup your WordPress files and database.

The file name of the archive will be generated from home_url() and a timestamp.

$ wp vackup create --dir=path/to/dir

The archive file name will be path/to/dir/example.com-20170101000000.zip.

Restore from backup.

$ wp vackup restore <file>

You'd sometimes need wp search-replace, for example when you create a backup from production and restore it to dev environment.

Launch WordPress from backup with PHP built-in server.

$ wp vackup server /path/to/backup.zip

Then visit http://localhost:8080/.

Usage

NAME

  wp vackup

DESCRIPTION

  CLI based backup solution for WordPress

SYNOPSIS

  wp vackup <command>

SUBCOMMANDS

  create       Create a `.zip` archive of a WordPress install.
  restore      Restore the WordPress site from backup.
  server       Launch WordPress from backup file with PHP built-in web server.

Upgrade

$ wp package update