This lightweight script is designed to backup any number of WordPress sites without the use of a plugin. This backup script is using tar and bash to acomplish a full backup of your WordPress sites. Multiple sites can be backed up by creating additoinal backup profiles.

Features:

• Server Level Backups.
• Easy to intergrate RSync or FTP to transfer to remote server.
• Combines SQL Database and Only the WordPress files for easy restores.
• Can be set on a cron job.

Update: 2022 Works with latest wordpress (Stable release: 6.0 / 24 May 2022)

There are 2 parts to this script:

1. WordPressBackup.sh
   • the main script that does all the heavy lifting.
2. Backup.profile
   • the configuration profile that manages the retention policy

How to use:

1. Download the script.
2. Copy and Modify the backup.profile.
3. Place backup.profile in the directory above your WordPress install or /home/username/
4. chmod +x WordPress-Backup
5. ./WordPress-Backup Depending on where you put your backup.profile you may need to modify the main script's FINDDIR.