Usage

You can use the Remote Backup plugin to make manual backups of your data or automated backups via CLI and cron.

Creating Backups Manually

To create backups via the Control Panel, you can find the Remote Backup interface in the Utilities section of Craft:

Here you will see a list of your recent database and volume backups as well as the ability to create new ones:

You'll see that there is some additional information listed with your backups to help you keep track of when they were last taken and from where:

• Date: the date the backup was taken.
• Time: the time the backup was taken.
• Env: the environment the backup was taken on (development, production, ...).
• Version: the Craft version running on the instance that took the backup.
• Size: the total size of the backup.

Automating Backups via CLI and Cron

While the interface is useful, it's generally preferred to set up automated backups on your server. Remote Backup has a number of Craft commands that let you take backups from the CLI:

- remote-backup/database                    Manage remote database backups
    remote-backup/database/create           Create a remote database backup
    remote-backup/database/list             List remote database backups
    remote-backup/database/prune            Delete old remote database backups

- remote-backup/volume                      Manage remote volume backups
    remote-backup/volume/create             Create a remote volumes backup
    remote-backup/volume/list               List remote volumes backups
    remote-backup/volume/prune              Delete old remote volume backups

For example:

./craft remote-backup/database/create

These commands can be used alongside cron or your deployment scripts to automatically/periodically create backups.

0 * * * * /path/to/craft remote-backup/database/create
5 * * * * /path/to/craft remote-backup/database/prune