WordPress Backup Script

#!/bin/bash

# This script creates a compressed backup archive of the given directory and the given MySQL table. More details on implementation here: https://theme.fm
# Feel free to use this script wherever you want, however you want. We produce open source, GPLv2 licensed stuff.
# Author: Konstantin Kovshenin exclusively for Theme.fm in June, 2011
# Modification by Hasan T. Emdad tweenpath.net on August, 2020

# Set the date format, filename and the directories where your backup files will be placed and which directory will be archived.

NOW=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M")
FILE="example.org.$NOW.tar"
BACKUP_DIR="/backups"
WWW_DIR="/var/www/example.org/"

# MySQL database credentials
DB_USER="mysqluser"
DB_PASS="mysqlpass"
DB_NAME="example_org"
DB_FILE="example.org.$NOW.sql"

# Tar transforms for better archive structure.
WWW_TRANSFORM='s,^var/www/example.org,www,'
DB_TRANSFORM='s,^var/www/example.org/backups,database,'

# Create the archive and the MySQL dump
tar -cvf $BACKUP_DIR/$FILE --transform $WWW_TRANSFORM $WWW_DIR
mysqldump --user=${DB_USER} --password=${DB_PASS} $DB_NAME > $BACKUP_DIR/$DB_FILE

# Append the dump to the archive, remove the dump and compress the whole archive.
tar --append --file=$BACKUP_DIR/$FILE --transform $DB_TRANSFORM $BACKUP_DIR/$DB_FILE
rm $BACKUP_DIR/$DB_FILE
gzip -9 $BACKUP_DIR/$FILE