Often hosteur disallow sql connection from an address which is not on the domain, so I had the idea to use modx url to connect to the db.
This little script use
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html"" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">curl to connect to the manager and retrieve the backup generated by MODx.
Check the prefix table (mine is ’_modx’).
Is it in
bash for linux but it is not difficult to convert for windows, or you can
download the windows version.
You can put it in crontab to automatically retrieve the backup.
Be carefull : if you have additionnal table which are not part of MODx default install (like jot, maxigallery (added)) these tables must be added to the query or they won’t be backed up.
#!/bin/bash
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------"
# your host name
HOST=dp-site.fr
#the Folder where to put the file
BACKDIR=/media/hda3/archives/
# Your MODx manager user login and password, Dont forget to escape your chars ie:for ' ' = %20
USER=xxxx
PASSWORD=xxxx
# Name of the file
FILENAME=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)
# String to append to the Name of the file
FILEPOSTFIX='_bak.sql'
# your modx prefix for database
MODXPREFIXTABLE=_modx
m=_modx
#$MODXPREFIXTABLE
file=$BACKDIR$FILENAME$FILEPOSTFIX
echo Backup name: $file
echo " Login"
eval "curl $HOST/manager/processors/login.processor.php -D "$BACKDIR"modxheader.txt -d \"username="$USER"&password="$PASSWORD"&submit=Connecter&rememberme=checked\""
#curl $HOST"/manager/processors/login.processor.php -D "$BACKDIR"modxheader.txt -d username="$USER"&password="$PASSWORD"&submit=Connecter&rememberme=checked"
echo " Get the backup"
curl -b modxheader.txt $HOST/manager/index.php?a=93 -d "mode=backup&droptables=on&chkselall=on&chk%5B%5D=modx_active_users&chk%5B%5D=modx_categories&chk%5B%5D=modx_document_groups&chk%5B%5D=modx_documentgroup_names&chk%5B%5D=modx_event_log&chk%5B%5D=modx_jot_content&chk%5B%5D=modx_jot_fields&chk%5B%5D=modx_jot_subscriptions&chk%5B%5D=modx_keyword_xref&chk%5B%5D=modx_manager_log&chk%5B%5D=modx_manager_users&chk%5B%5D=modx_maxigallery&chk%5B%5D=modx_member_groups&chk%5B%5D=modx_membergroup_access&chk%5B%5D=modx_membergroup_names&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_content&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_content_metatags&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_htmlsnippets&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_keywords&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_metatags&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_module_access&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_module_depobj&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_modules&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_plugin_events&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_plugins&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_snippets&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_templates&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_tmplvar_access&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_tmplvar_contentvalues&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_tmplvar_templates&chk%5B%5D=modx_site_tmplvars&chk%5B%5D=modx_system_eventnames&chk%5B%5D=modx_system_settings&chk%5B%5D=modx_user_attributes&chk%5B%5D=modx_user_messages&chk%5B%5D=modx_user_roles&chk%5B%5D=modx_user_settings&chk%5B%5D=modx_web_groups&chk%5B%5D=modx_web_user_attributes&chk%5B%5D=modx_web_user_settings&chk%5B%5D=modx_web_users&chk%5B%5D=modx_webgroup_access&chk%5B%5D=modx_webgroup_names&chk%5B%5D=geo&chk%5B%5D=geo2" >$file
echo " Compression"
tar -C $BACKDIR -cvf $FILENAME$FILEPOSTFIX.tar $FILENAME$FILEPOSTFIX
gzip $file.tar
echo " Nettoyage"
rm -v $file
rm -v $BACKDIR"modxheader.txt"
echo Backup terminé check your file:
echo $file".tar.gz"
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------"
