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DISCLAIMER
The following commands change how your GridPane server functions. This may void any support provide by GridPane, use at your own discretion. If you contact GridPane support, inform them that you made these changes.
Attention
GridPane’s Backup v1 System is no longer available and replaced by their v2 Backup system using duplicacy and this article is simply available as a point of reference.
The following article provides details on how local backups are completed when using GridPane.
Backup Location
The location of the local backups are within the following folder
/opt/gridpane/backups
There are two subfolders.
- Databases – Database dumps.
- Snapshots – Borg snapshots.
Method
The current method for backup up files is borg backup, you can read more about borg here https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ There is a cronjob that is kicked off under the root user
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/gpbup
You’ll see the command expands to the following.
/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/borg create --stats --compression lz4 /opt/gridpane/backups/snapshots::managingwp.io-{now:%Y-%m-%d-%H} /var/www/managingwp.io/htdocs
--exclude *.img --exclude *.iso --exclude *.wpress --exclude *.tar --exclude *.zip --exclude *.gz
I’m not too sure how the database backups are completed, I’m assuming mysqldump.
Accessing
If you want to see a list of the snapshots available via borg, you can run the following command. You will however have to enter in the authentication key which is located in the file /root/gridpane.token However, be careful as this is your GridPane API key.
borg list /opt/gridpane/backups/snapshots
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With 20 years experience in technology spanning from Linux, Data Center Infrastructure and related services and applications. Jordan consults with small, medium and large organizations tackling problems and technology needs. With 10 years experience in WordPress, he’s created Managing WP as a means to dump his brain on the web.
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