Backup

datitisev

Backup

A Flarum extension. Backup your Flarum files and database to one or more local or remote storages.

This is a premium extension. Installation and updating requires an active subscription on Extiverse.

Latest version requires PHP 8

Backup offers the ability to periodically create and upload a backup of your most important data to any of the configured (remote) storage drivers, including S3, FTP and dropbox.

This consists of public/assets, composer.json, composer.lock and extend.php (if it exists).

This extension will create a backup of your forum including the database and your assets directory. It combines them into a zip file and uploads it to all the configured storage drivers.

Installation

Follow the instructions @ https://extiverse.com/premium/subscriptions to configure Composer to be able to install premium extensions.

composer require datitisev/flarum-backup

Configuration

See the extension page.

If you need to backup your data to a service not listed, please contact me and I'll do my best to implement it 🙂.

Links

Original by Flagrow logo Flagrow.

Thanks to @luceos for letting me release & maintain it.

Justman10000

datitisev

Could the prices be lowered? I don't want to say that it wasn't worth the price, didn't take any time or effort, just $ 40 is not exactly cheap, especially if you don't have a lot of money! In the end, they would make just as much, if not more, money, because then more people would buy or rent this ... Furthermore, it would be practical if you could at least pay via PayPal ... Not everyone has a credit/debit card 😂!

datitisev

0.2.0

0.2.1 Configure FTP driver
0.2.1 Remove non-functioning drivers - these can be added back when there's demand for them
Add Google Drive driver
- I hate Google API
- It took me longer to get the credentials I needed than to code the actual driver
- Look at all the garbage you have to do to get the credentials you need
  - https://github.com/ivanvermeyen/laravel-google-drive-demo/blob/master/README.md#create-your-google-drive-api-keys
Configure Dropbox driver to do something other than error 🙃

katos

I have tested this internally for QA, and it's working an absolute dream.
It's super easy to configure, and being a GSuite user, the backup to Drive is very handy!

My only bug-bear so far is the request to change the timestamp (ISO) to a readable format that follows DATEtime formatting to make it easier to identify.

bavard

A great addition to the list. But I strongly condemn that most premium extensions require a paid subscription. With a monthly fee of $5 this extension costs $60 per year, the same price as a comfortable shared hosting. Multiply this by the 8 other premiums and you can wonder if it makes sense to spend $480 every year on a software. (this is an extreme case to make my point)
I wouldn't however be opposed to a one time fee.

Hari

do we have restore option from backup files? if not please plan this in next version

katos

Hari Personally I'd argue that wouldn't make much sense?
If you're able to restore through an extension then surely your forum is already working? 🤔

However, the extension packages both your FTP and SQL backups, so it wouldn't be difficult to restore this manually.

datitisev

Hari Restoring through the extension would probably be more trouble as it is worth. Apart from probably not having a working forum when you need to restore the backup, you'd still need to install composer dependencies (vendor is not backed up as it's not necessary, only composer.json is) and make sure the DB import works fine and all.

datitisev

Added new plans to Extiverse.

Current prices are $5 $4/month, ~~$45~~ $25/year, or a one-time payment of ~~$70~~ $40.

Subscribe @ https://extiverse.com/extension/datitisev/flarum-backup to cover your forum backup needs.

And remember, you can suggest services to backup to when you've subscribed to the extension.

datitisev

0.3.0

Support for beta 14
- Not compatible with earlier versions - 0.2.x still works with them

Justman10000

I could only pay via Klarna... Who pays by credit, please? If then PayPal, which everyone doesn't have either!

datitisev

Justman10000 I think @luceos is working on (or was planning on) adding more payment methods to Extiverse. Apart from that, I can't say anything that'll magically add payment methods, sorry 🤷‍♂️.

luceos

datitisev I think @luceos is working on (or was planning on) adding more payment methods to Extiverse

Yeah not anytime soon 🙈 But still on my to-do.

Justman10000 credit card is pretty much the industry standard for online payments in many countries. Understand that every additional payment method costs quite some time to get implemented. As I haven't heard of Klarna and had no other requests for that yet it I need to evaluate whether it makes sense to add.

datitisev

Justman10000 Furthermore, it would be practical if you could at least pay via PayPal ... Not everyone has a credit/debit card 😂!

This is a current limitation of Extiverse, and so I can't do much about it righ tnow.

Justman10000 Could the prices be lowered? I don't want to say that it wasn't worth the price, didn't take any time or effort, just $ 40 is not exactly cheap, especially if you don't have a lot of money

I suggest you instead pay for a single month - if you can, of course. If the extension meets your expectations and/or I'm able to modify things to meet them, we can then figure something out.

blueCamel

Well, I can get local backups to work, but not to dropbox. I use the -vvv option to get debug info, but all I get is the error. Also, attempting to use only one driver instead of all the enabled ones do not seem to work.

Backing up to dropbox...
-> could not copy backupFile.zip

Please assist.

datitisev

1.0.5

1.0.4 Clarify instructions for Dropbox scoped apps (thanks @blueCamel!)
- Added custom handling of failure w/ no error to suggest fixing app's permissions
Fix the --driver option not working

Old updates never posted:

1.0.0 Update for Flarum v1
1.0.1 Trim adapter settings to prevent empty space around text (often occurs when copy/pasting)
1.0.1 Fix non-standard public folder paths

tom_on_wheels

Hi, I managed to install the backup extension. It's connected to Dropbox.

php flarum backup -vvv runs without issues.

When I try to run the suggested cronjob I am receiving "0 0 * * * cd /var/www/html && php flarum backup
bash: 0: command not found"

Do I have to run something before like installing cron or so? It's a shared hosting server .

clarkwinkelmann

tom_on_wheels how are you configuring your CRON tasks? Some hosts offer a graphical interface. On other you must use the command line to edit the crontab entries manually.

It seems like you tried to run the entire crontab line as a command in SSH.

Not all shared hostings might offer CRON support.

tom_on_wheels

clarkwinkelmann Hi Clark, Thanks a lot for your answer.

My hoster offers cronjob service where I can add the entire path to call a .php via http. Would this be possible and if yes which .php I would have to call?

datitisev

tom_on_wheels You might be able to point it to the flarum PHP file in /var/www/html/flarum (or wherever your Flarum install is). You'll need to be able to provide backup as an argument, however, so it runs php flarum backup. Based on your error message, simply php flarum backup might suffice (you might need the cd part to get to the right directory).

However, I might be misunderstanding your post. When you say call a .php via HTTP, do you mean the file must be publicly available and accessible through the web server? If so, the flarum file isn't (and shouldn't), so that won't work.
In that case, it might be helpful if you share who your hosting provider is.

tom_on_wheels

datitisev Understood, thanks a lot.

My hoster is all-inkl.com.