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To prepare for that day of  disaster when your server crashes and your web-shop gets erased from the face of the Internet, we are happy to be giving away a free script for taking database dumps in an automated fashion (using cron) of your OXID e-Shop databases.

The script is written in Python, and has been tested to run on any LINUX machine supporting the language.

The code can be downloaded from code.google.com.

USAGE

shell$: eb_takedbdump.py -e <env> -s <shoproot>

Where

<env> = Any environment label to signify the environment where the shop is running.  Typically you’d set prod, dev, staging, vm and such values.  This value is then appended to the filename of the dump that is produced.

<shoproot> = the root folder where the core/ shop files reside (along with config.inc.php, .htaccess etc)

Working

Once the script runs successfully, you can expect 2 things:

1. A database dump file with the name dbname_env.sql (See Usage above for <env>).  dbname is the shop’s database name from config.inc.php
2. A log file called eb_takedbdump.log in <shoproot>/log/

You will have to make sure to set the permissions on database/ and log/ directories appropriately in case the script is being as a different user than the one owning the shop-directories.

REQUEST to Users

If you use the script, we would be thankful if you can mention (by email or comment below) in which server-environment and hoster you are successfully (or unsuccessfully) running this script.

We’ve got it to run on below environments until now:

1. Linux server000-han 2.6.99.8intel #1 SMP Sun Oct 30 22:38:04 CET 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Profihost hosting account)
2. Linux xxx 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 13 16:29:33 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux (dedicated Debian 5.0.9 Server)
3. OXID Virtual Machine 2.0

Next Steps

As todos for the next version we are collecting the following list:

1. Support mentioning log-level as a CLI input parameter
2. Support a CLI parameter for rsync-ing the dump-file with an rsync-server
3. zip or gz the dump so that it’s more transportable (ex. to a back-up server by rsync et al)