As you all know by now, I love puPHPet. And I like tinkering with things. Which of course leads to the occasional breaking of things. And then I realised, okay, your sites files are being mounted into this virtual machine, what about the databases though?
The great thing about puPHPet and Vagrant is you can build a full server up from scratch in minutes. The one downside is that it cant be smart enough to uninstall things. If you add lines to your config.yaml it will install something, but removing those lines means puPHPet won’t even know it was there, so how would it know to uninstall it? The exceptions of course being the ones which have their own config.yaml entry, with an install: ‘1’ or install: ‘0’
Anyway, I generated me a new config and was about to blitz my old VM when the usual gut instinct checks kicked in, and the DB sprung to mind immediately. So I made a quick backupdbs.sh shell script (courtesy of a StackOverflow post) which makes individual sql files for each of your DB’s. I decided I would keep the script in my mounted sites folder in a bin directory. So hence it lives in /var/www/bin/backupdbs.sh
#!/bin/bash
USER="root"
PASSWORD="YOURPASSWORDHERE"
databases=`mysql -u $USER -p$PASSWORD -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | tr -d "| " | grep -v Database`
for db in $databases; do
   if [[ "$db" != "information_schema" ]] && [[ "$db" != "performance_schema" ]] && [[ "$db" != "mysql" ]] && [[ "$db" != _* ]] ; then
       echo "Dumping database: $db"
       mysqldump -u $USER -p$PASSWORD --databases $db > `date +%Y%m%d`.$db.sql
   fi
done
To back everything up, vagrant ssh into the machine, then (you’ll probably need to switch user to www-data) do the following:
sudo su www-data
cd /var/www/bin
./backupdbs.sh
Now you’ll find all your DB’s SQL files date stamped in the folder! You can continue to break, tweak, fix, and run your VM to your hearts content 😀
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