Bash script to backup WordPress

01-WpBashBackUp.md

WP Bash Backup Script

This bash script quickly does the backup of the wp-content directory and uses the WPCLI command to export the database.

Place the script in the WordPress root directory and run sh bkup.sh .

After the script executes an archive should be located in the WordPress root directory similar to this: site_wpcontent_bkup_12_30_2019.zip.

02-bkup.sh

#!/bin/bash

#get the current date
NOW=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")

#set archive backup name and append the date
SITEBKUPNAME="site_wpcontent_bkup_$NOW.zip"

#export database
wp db export

#zip up the wp-content dir
zip -r $SITEBKUPNAME wp-content/

#add the exported file to the zip archive
zip -g $SITEBKUPNAME *.sql

#remove the sql file after it is added to archiive
rm *.sql

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