README

Composer package for CodeIgniter 3 projects to backup and restore:

• database dump
• uploads/ folder

Install

Option A: local/VCS install

composer config repositories.ci3-backup-tools path packages/ci3-backup-tools
composer require alihsaan/ci3-backup-tools:@dev

Option B: Packagist

After publishing:

composer require alihsaan/ci3-backup-tools

Commands

From your project root:

vendor/bin/ci3-backup
vendor/bin/ci3-restore /absolute/path/to/ci3-backup_YYYY-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS.tar.gz

You can pass a target app directory too:

vendor/bin/ci3-backup /var/www/html/another-ci3-app
vendor/bin/ci3-restore /path/to/backup.tar.gz /var/www/html/another-ci3-app

Config

By default, config is loaded from <APP_DIR>/.env. Copy .env.sample from this package and set DB + remote settings.

Main keys:

• DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD
• REMOTE_BACKUP_MODE=none|rsync|ftp
• REMOTE_KEEP_LOCAL=true|false
• VERIFY_BACKUP=true|false

Publish package

1. Push packages/ci3-backup-tools to its own GitHub repository
2. Keep composer.json as package root
3. Tag release (e.g. v1.0.0)
4. Submit repository on Packagist