☁️ Duplicator: Backup and move sites

Frank Vèssia · April 2, 2020

Hello, thanks @Autofahrn that solved the problem but I still have an issue and I think it depends on the fact I'm running on a windows server with IIS (I reverted to php 7.3.13). While a fresh install of the latest PW is going well, the install from duplicator doesn't, I'm stuck in the extraction of the package, it looks like the $_SESSION['package'] returns null at this point but right after the extraction the session was ok, in fact I saw the name of the package in the previous step. Any thoughts?

$this->package = $_SESSION['package'];
        if(is_null($this->package)) {
            $this->err("Something went wrong in the installer.");    //ATO: Typo
            return false;
        }

flydev · April 2, 2020

Hi @Sevarf2

Can you make a screenshot of the Step #1 et #2 please ?

And FYI I also used the Duplicator installer on IIS without issue.

Frank Vèssia · April 2, 2020

meanwhile I contacted the sys admin and it looks like there is some server misconfiguration we can't fix yet, when I upload the zip I found out that I cannot rename it, probably that's why the installer is stuck...but I was able to install a fresh PW..btw right now i can't show you the steps since we deleted everything and making tests

flydev · April 2, 2020

Okay - then if you have some feedback from the sys admin, let us know if possible, thanks ?

Robin S · April 15, 2020

Hi @flydev ??,

A feature request...

It would be awesome if there was a feature to enter a selector string that determined the pages whose files will be included in the backup. So that if the selector string was "template=basic-page" then in the backup the only directories inside /site/assets/files/ would be those belonging to a basic-page.

My use case is that I sometimes need to copy a site to my local machine to do some work, but that work only involves one part of the site. My connection speed is not great where I live (particularly upload speed) so it would be a big help if I only needed to download/upload the related files and not all the site files.

Thanks for considering. ?

bernhard · April 15, 2020

17 hours ago, Robin S said:

My use case is that I sometimes need to copy a site to my local machine to do some work, but that work only involves one part of the site. My connection speed is not great where I live (particularly upload speed) so it would be a big help if I only needed to download/upload the related files and not all the site files.

Have you ever tried on-demand downloading of files? https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.137/#on-demand-mirroring-of-remote-web-server-files-to-your-dev-environment

This works really great. You can start with a completely empty files folder and PW will download all requested files on demand - either on the frontend or on the backend.

Robin S · April 16, 2020

11 hours ago, bernhard said:

Have you ever tried on-demand downloading of files?

Thanks for the reminder - I just tried this for the first time and it works well.

I still think it would be a nice feature to add to Duplicator because it's more efficient time-wise to download all the images you need in one hit while you have a coffee rather than page by page as you edit. Plus I reckon people will find other use cases for selectively including page files in a backup.

flydev · April 16, 2020

On 4/15/2020 at 2:40 AM, Robin S said:

My use case is that I sometimes need to copy a site to my local machine to do some work, but that work only involves one part of the site. My connection speed is not great where I live (particularly upload speed) so it would be a big help if I only needed to download/upload the related files and not all the site files.

Thanks for considering. ?

Considered @Robin S

I also have a bad connection (working with a 4G router) and it's definitely a good feature request. I will try to implement it asap, but I would like to release first the module with the native backup feature but I lack time. I will try to do my best.

Thanks for the link @bernhard

Thanks again guys, I hope you're all fine here ??

eydun · April 16, 2020

Thank you for a fantastic module.

Would it be possible to exclude the database from the backup?

I ask because it get a timeout when running the backup, and I can move the database (which is quite large) by other means.

adrian · April 16, 2020

@eydun - please try the dev branch - https://github.com/flydev-fr/Duplicator/tree/dev - it uses native backups and solved the timeout issues I was having.

eydun · April 16, 2020

49 minutes ago, adrian said:

@eydun - please try the dev branch - https://github.com/flydev-fr/Duplicator/tree/dev - it uses native backups and solved the timeout issues I was having.

I have tried with the dev-version, but it also timed out. I guess the host is to low-end.

adrian · April 16, 2020

@eydun - two things.

1) Did you check the "Native" option in the module settings? I am sure you did, but just checking ?

2) Try the attached file in the Classes directory. I had to modify it to get it working at my end.

BackupDatabase.php

eydun · April 16, 2020

It does not work for me, so I will just take a manual backup of the files.

Thanks for the help ?

huseyin · April 16, 2020

I plan to use this module as duplicater.

How is it handling database name?

I want to create a template PW site and clone it for new projects.

So i need to change the database name for every new clone. It should not overwrite former clones databases on the same server.

Can achive this with this module?

eydun · April 16, 2020

Yes, you enter database information when you restore the backup (try it).

flydev · April 20, 2020

On 4/16/2020 at 12:00 PM, eydun said:

Thank you for a fantastic module.

Would it be possible to exclude the database from the backup?

I ask because it get a timeout when running the backup, and I can move the database (which is quite large) by other means.

Hi @eydun

I can definitely give an option to exclude the database dump (> in the todo list) . Anyway, can we know the details and type of the hosting server ?

On my side, I can backup a ~4GB database, but it's a windows server that I configured myself (still on Apache).

@huseyin any news ? could you achieve what you was looking for by choosing the database name in the installer ?

eydun · April 22, 2020

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I can definitely give an option to exclude the database dump (> in the todo list) . Anyway, can we know the details and type of the hosting server ?

Hi @flydev ?? It would be cool to be able to backup the site and files because of the nice zip-functionality and installer in Duplicator, without backing up the database. I was on a shared Linux host. I guess the timeout limit was set too low. Anyway now I am on a much better host (Linode).

antpre · June 12, 2020

Hello,

Tks for the module. it's working fine (back up on local or S3). Could restore the site on my local instalation. However when tried to migrate site to an other server bump into this probleme.

The user mentionned her is the db user and has all the rigths. Can any body tell what should I be looking at.

Pretty sure the problem is with my server config and not with the module of course.

A fresh install of PW on the same serve works fine.

Tks

flydev · June 12, 2020

Hi @antpre

by looking at the exception, you are using the wrong credentials to access the database. But at the same time, the connection seem successful.

Could you check the credentials in the config.php ?

If you feel confident, I can take a look at it more closely, you can send me the FTP access and the url through private message here in the forum.

antpre · June 12, 2020

Tks for your answer. Indeed the connection is correct and all the tables are created. this is why I was surprised.

I looked into the config.php. as per your advice and found the culprit.

the db user password has been truncated. The last 2 characters have been removed ! inital password was Bok03d$9 the password in the config.php is Bok03d

But the password was typed properly during the install phase and the db import went ok.

Any idea ?

flydev · June 12, 2020

Thanks for getting into this - I will test with that password and will let you know whats going on.

horst · June 12, 2020

Best bet is that the DollarSign and the following character was interpreted as a PHP variable. Try also paswords like: MyNiceStringStopsHere!$andNotHere

Or test with 'single-quotes' surrounding the password, if it currently has "Double Quotes". ?

adrian · June 12, 2020

I've had issues with MySQL passwords with special characters before. I hadn't thought about which character was causing the problem, but I agree with @horst that the $ is the likely problem.

antpre · June 12, 2020

Flydev,

in the meanwhile, I tried on the same server with an other db and a password with no $ ... at it all went fine.

Tks for the premium support !

Alpine418 · November 27, 2020

Duplicator does not work with PHP 8 anymore. get_magic_quotes_gpc() is removed.

Is there any Roadmap to see how the module get evolved in the next few months?

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