How to backup your website through SSH command line?

Dr. McKay · Apr 19, 2018

Normally I have to use both SSH and Phpmyadmin to backup files, folders, mysql databases. I am wondering if there is a way only use SSH command line to backup whole my website files and databases?

DenisMNE · Apr 19, 2018

I did some research and I might be able to provide you an answer for it.
It might be pretty simple, so please check it out and let me know did it work.
Hope it helps :

VirtuBox · Apr 20, 2018

Dr. McKay said:
Normally I have to use both SSH and Phpmyadmin to backup files, folders, mysql databases. I am wondering if there is a way only use SSH command line to backup whole my website files and databases?

To backup a database, you just need to run

Bash:

mysqldump -u database_user -p database_name > database_dump.sql

Then you can make an archive with all your files with tar :

Bash:

# To extract an uncompressed archive:
tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar

# To create an uncompressed archive:
tar -cvf /path/to/foo.tar /path/to/foo/

# To create a .gz archive:
tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/

# To create a .bz2 archive:
tar -cjvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/

How to backup your website through SSH command line?

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