CloudBackupBundle
This bundle helps you to backup your databases and upload it to the cloud with only one Symfony2 command.
You can :
- Dump one database
- Dump all databases
- Different types of databases can be dumped each time
- Upload to several Cloud services
Databases supported :
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL (excluding all_databases option)
Cloud services supported :
- Dropbox (Dropbox SDK)
- CloudApp (thanks to CloudAPP-API-PHP-wrapper)
- Amazon S3 (through KnpGaufretteBundle or OneupFlysystemBundle)
- Google Drive (thanks to HappyrGoogleSiteAuthenticatorBundle)
- Rackspace (through OneupFlysystemBundle)
But also :
- Local (through KnpGaufretteBundle or OneupFlysystemBundle)
- FTP (through KnpGaufretteBundle or OneupFlysystemBundle)
- sFTP (through KnpGaufretteBundle or OneupFlysystemBundle)
- GridFS (through KnpGaufretteBundle or OneupFlysystemBundle)
- MogileFS (through KnpGaufretteBundle)
- WebDAV (through OneupFlysystemBundle)
are supported :-)
Compressors supported :
- Tar - fast and medium effective, don't support password
- Zip - fast and medium effective, support password
- 7zip - very slow and very effective, support password
Splitters supported:
- ZipSplit - split a zipfile into smaller zipfiles
Installation (>=Symfony 2.1)
Composer
Download CloudBackupBundle and its dependencies to the vendor directory. You can use Composer for the automated process:
$ php composer.phar require dizda/cloud-backup-bundle
Composer will install the bundle to vendor/dizda
directory.
Adding bundle to your application kernel
// app/AppKernel.php
public function registerBundles()
{
$bundles = array(
// ...
new Dizda\CloudBackupBundle\DizdaCloudBackupBundle(),
// ...
);
}
Configuration
Here is the default configuration for the bundle:
dizda_cloud_backup:
# By default backup files will have your servers hostname as prefix
# such as: hostname_2014-01-01_21-08-39.tar
output_file_prefix: hostname
timeout: 300
restore: false # Set to true to enable restore command
processor:
type: tar # Required: tar|zip|7z
options:
compression_ratio: 6
password: qwerty
# Split into many files of `split_size` bytes
split:
enable: false # Default false
split_size: 1000 # Make each zip files no larger than "split_size" in bytes
storages: [ Dropbox, CloudApp, GoogleDrive, Gaufrette ] # Which cloud storages will upload split files
folders: [ web/uploads , other/folder ]
cloud_storages:
# Local storage definition
local:
path: ~ # Required
# CloudApp account. Can be optional, like dropbox.
cloudapp:
user: ~ # Required
password: ~ # Required
# or you can use Gaufrette as well (optional)
gaufrette:
service_name: # Gaufrette filesystem(s) service name
- local_backup_filesystem
- amazon_backup_filesystem
flysystem:
service_name: # Flysystem filesystem(s) service name
- oneup_flysystem.acme_filesystem
google_drive:
token_name: ~ # Required
remote_path: ~ # Not required, default "/", but you can use path like "/Accounts/backups/"
# Using dropbox via official API. You need to add "dropbox/dropbox-sdk": "1.1.*" in your composer.json file
dropbox_sdk:
remote_path: ~ # Required. Path to upload files (where the root '/' will be application folder)
access_token: ~ # Required. Access token provided by DropBox to authenticate your application. You can follow instructions at https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/start/php
databases:
mongodb:
all_databases: false # Only required when no database is set
database: ~ # Required if all_databases is false
db_user: ~ # Not required, leave empty if no auth is required
db_password: ~ # Not required
mysql:
all_databases: false # Only required when no database is set
database: ~ # Required if all_databases is false
db_host: localhost # This, and following is not required and if not specified, the bundle will take ORM configuration in parameters.yml
db_port: ~ # Default 3306
db_user: ~
db_password: ~
ignore_tables: # Specify full name if dumping all databases. `dbname.tablename`
- table1
- table2
postgresql:
database: dbname # Required
db_host: localhost # This, and following is not required and if not specified, the bundle will take ORM configuration in parameters.yml
db_port: ~ # Default 5432
db_user: ~
db_password: ~
It is recommended to keep real values for logins and passwords in your parameters.yml file, e.g.:
# app/config/config.yml
dizda_cloud_backup:
processor:
type: tar
options:
password: %dizda_cloud_archive_password%
cloud_storages:
dropbox_sdk:
access_token: %dizda_cloud_dropbox_token%
remote_path: /backup
databases:
mongodb:
all_databases: false
database: %dizda_cloud_mongodb_user%
db_user: %dizda_cloud_mongodb_user%
db_pass: %dizda_cloud_mongodb_password%
mysql:
# When no parameters is specified under mysql, the bundle taking those from parameters.yml
postgresql:
# When no parameters is specified under postgresql, the bundle taking those from parameters.yml
# app/config/parameters.yml
# ...
database_driver: pdo_mysql
database_host: localhost
database_port: null
database_name: myDatabase
database_user: myLogin
database_password: myDatabasePassword
# ...
dizda_cloud_dropbox_token: myDropboxUser
dizda_cloud_mongodb_user: mongodbUser
dizda_cloud_mongodb_password: mongodbPass
dizda_cloud_archive_password: ArchivePassword
# ...
Usage
The bundle adds one command to symfony console: app/console dizda:backup:start
which you execute periodically as a cron job.
For example the following cron command dumps your database every days at 6am on a server :
# m h dom mon dow command
0 6 * * * cd /var/www/yourproject && php app/console --env=prod dizda:backup:start > /dev/null 2>&1
Info : To edit crontab for the user www-data (to prevent permissions error) :
$ crontab -u www-data -e
or simply
$ php app/console --env=prod dizda:backup:start
In addition, using -F or --folder option the folders also will be added to the backup.
Obviously, if some problems occurs during the backup process, you can configure monolog to send you emails.
When working locally or on a staging server, you can configure the bundle to enable restoring. Set restore: true
and
the following command is available:
$ php app/console dizda:backup:restore --force
Note! Not all processors, clients and databases supports restoring. Backupped files are not restored.
Which archiver do I use?
tar
and zip
archivers are produce the same size of compressed file, but tar
compresses faster.
7z
archiver is very slow, but has double effectiveness.
tar
archiver do not support encryption, other archivers support.
Note Your system may not have the
zip
and7z
archivers installed. Buttar
is installed in common case.
Guide to choice:
- If you don't need password protection and you have enough disk space, the best choice is
tar
. - If you need password protection and you have enough disk space, the best choice is
zip
. - If you haven't enough disk space (or you will do backup often) and you backup only text data (e.g. database dumps), the best choice is
7z
.
Note Any archiver good compress text files (and better compress structured texts e.g. sql, css, html/xml). But binary files (images, audio, video) will not be well compressed. If you have small database dump and big binary data, the best choice will be
tar
orzip
.
Comparison of archivers
Uncompressed archive contents sql dump of 42.2M size. This table represents effectiveness of archivers. Third column contents compressed archive file and percent of compression (low is better). Fourth column contents compression time and its ratio (to first line) (low is better).
archiver | compression | archive size | execution time |
---|---|---|---|
tar | default (6) | 8.78M (20.8%) | 4.44s (1.00x) |
tar | best (9) | 8.45M (20.0%) | 9.89s (2.23x) |
zip | default (6) | 8.78M (20.8%) | 5.39s (1.21x) |
zip | best (9) | 8.45M (20.0%) | 11.03s (2.48x) |
7z | default (5) | 4.42M (10.5%) | 31.06s (7.00x) |
7z | best (9) | 4.24M (10.0%) | 38.88s (8.76x) |
Capifony integration
If you are using capifony for deployment you can grab the sample task for easier backups.
Add the following task in your deploy.rb file
namespace :symfony do
namespace :dizda do
namespace :backup do
desc "Upload a backup of your database to cloud service's"
task :start do
run "#{try_sudo} sh -c 'cd #{current_release} && #{php_bin} #{symfony_console} dizda:backup:start #{console_options}'"
end
end
end
end
This adds symfony:dizda:backup:start command to capifony. To launch it automatically on deploy you might use:
# 1) Launches backup right before deploy
before "deploy", "symfony:dizda:backup:start"
# 2) Launches backup after deploy
after "deploy", "symfony:dizda:backup:start"
Report to Deadmanssnitch.com
To be sure your backup scripts are actually run you can report each successful backup to deadmanssnitch.com using DeadmanssnitchBundle.
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This bundle was inspired from KachkaevDropboxBackupBundle.
Enjoy, PR are welcome !