The Niklas Lindblad Organisation

This simple script looks in a specified directory (and its subdirectories), the webserver document root preferably, for wp-config.php files. When it finds a file it parses it to extract the variables DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and DB_HOST inside the file and then connects to the database and dump it using mysqldump into a text file compressed using gzip. All the backups are placed in another user specified diretory where they are suffixed with the current date in %Y-%m-%d format.

Some of the advantages are that you don’t need to specify anything on beforehand since it will automatically find all the Wordpress installations in the document root and back up their databases. Also, if a user or administrator changes the settings then the script will use the new values since it does not save them anywhere, it reads them straight from the configuration file on every run.

It should probably be extended with some error handling but right now it’s simple and works fine.

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