Backups are the most important part of securing your website. But many people are having a hard time finding cost - effective ways to back up the website. With the backuplift script, you can set up a backup to be stored on a Hetzner storage box.

• Run backup with cron,
• Takes 5-minutes to setup everything.

Manage multiple backup profiles: Create multiple profile.sh files to backup multipe wordpress sites.

• profile-one.sh
• profile-two.sh

Important notes:

• By default, profile.sh will send site files without compressing them.
• If you like to send files compressing them, use profile-compressed-backup.sh instead.
• Make sure to test run once the setup is done.
• You must have rsync installed in your linux server. Test it by typing rsync in your terminal. If you see manual, it would mean rsync is installed already. If not, you'll have to install it.

• I have written down step by step way to create & authenticate your storagebox to your server, click here to read md file.
• *Only prorceed to next step if you were able to authenticate properly

• Create folder, name it backuplift.
• Then download the profile.sh & upload to backuplift folder.
• make profile.sh executable file.

• or you can type the following command to do it. [This will create folder, download the profile.sh file & make the file executable]

mkdir backuplift && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manoj-wpzonify/backuplift/main/profile.sh -P backuplift && chmod +x backuplift/profile.sh

• it would be good idea to do this in the /home directory. of course you can do it anywhere you want.

• Open the profile.sh file

nano profile.sh

• And modify the following with your storagebox details

remote_dirs=""    -------------> remote directory location.
remote_user=""   -------------> hetzner storagebox username.
remote_server=""-------------> hetzner storagebox hostname.
target_dir=""       -------------> Your website directory path.

• Save the changes & close the editor.

• You can find the example cronjob below. This runs midnight, you can customize the way you want.

0 0 * * *  bash /backuplift/profile.sh