Run "ghost backup" from crontab / Ghost Backup strategy

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I’m looking into the backup strategy, and would love to be able to copy the filesystem and do a mysqldump of the database and then i would setup another server to connect and extract such information through rsync.

I have noticed that there’s a “ghost backup” command, and looks like the right step to do in the machine, previous to copy that .zip file with all the wanted information (filesystem + database copy) using rsync, but this command is interactive.

Is anyway to provide email/password so this “ghost backup” command can be scheduled in the crontab?

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Search for automysqlbackup. IIRC, this is included in the Ubuntu repos.

sudo apt install automysqlbackup
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I could totally schedule a mysqldump on the crontab, but i would like to know if it’s possible to schedule the “ghost backup” command.

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You can add ghost backup to the Ghost user’s crontab. Of course, this won’t tell you if it was successful unless you create a script that checks for errors, and writes output to a log or mails the results.

Surely, you have a backup strategy for the server, not only Ghost? That would be a better option.

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I’m trying to figure it out.

Usually with wordpress i take a mysqldump and the i connect to that server through rsync and copy the filesystem and the backup to the backup server.

I’m trying to see how should be the correct strategy for Ghost.

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That’s a viable option for Ghost too. automysqlbackup handles daily, weekly, monthly backups for you, so all you need to do is rsync /var/www (plus /etc/nginx, /etc/letsencrypt, /etc/ssl etc.) and where the database is dumped, e.g., /var/lib/automysqlbackup.

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Hi! I am wondering the same thing. I would like to make my ghost backup using the ghost backup -command. The command is interactive (and not suitable for sh scripts), unless --no-prompt flag is used. But then you would need to be able to provide the necessary information via command line flags and I am not able to find any documentation on that.

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Although this is an old post, I’ve created a script to backup ghost via crontab or CLI without user input:
https://gitlab.com/langlaisg/backup-ghost-cms-script