#!/bin/bash
# your backups will use these filenames.
db_backup_name=”tweenpath-db-backup-“`date “+%Y-%m-%d”`”.sql.gz”
wpfiles_backup_name=”tweenpath-files-backup-“`date “+%Y-%m-%d”`”.tar.gz”
## 1: database connection info. You can get these details from your wp-config file. db_name="user_name" db_username="database" db_password="password" ## 2: Path to your WordPress Upload and Theme directories. Replace /home/username/ with path to your home directory. wp_upload_folder="/home/tweenpath/public_html" ## 3: Path to your backup folder. Replace /home/username/ with path to your home directory. backup_folder_path="/backup/tweenpath" # backup MYSQL database, gzip it and send to backup folder. mysqldump --opt -u$db_username -p$db_password $db_name | gzip > $backup_folder_path/$db_backup_name # create a tarball of the wordpress files, gzip it and send to backup folder. tar -czf $backup_folder_path/$wpfiles_backup_name $wp_upload_folder| # delete all but 5 recent wordpress database back-ups (files having .sql.gz extension) in backup folder. find $backup_folder_path -maxdepth 1 -name "*.sql.gz" -type f | xargs -x ls -t | awk 'NR>5' | xargs -L1 rm # delete all but 5 recent wordpress files back-ups (files having .tar.gz extension) in backup folder. find $backup_folder_path -maxdepth 1 -name "*.tar.gz" -type f | xargs -x ls -t | awk 'NR>5' | xargs -L1 rm
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