Commands¶

DBBackup exposes Django management commands for creating and restoring database and media backups. Without extra arguments dbbackup and mediabackup create a backup and upload it to the configured STORAGES['dbbackup'] backend; dbrestore / mediarestore download and restore the most recent matching backup.

Use python manage.py <command> --help for full option details.

dbbackup¶

Create a database backup (optionally compressed/encrypted) and upload it.

$ ./manage.py dbbackup
Backing Up Database: tmp.x0kN9sYSqk
Backup size: 3.3 KiB
Writing file to tmp-zuluvm-2016-07-29-100954.dump

For detailed help information, run:

python manage.py dbbackup --help

dbrestore¶

Download the latest database backup (or a specified one) then restore it.

$ ./manage.py dbrestore
Restoring backup for database: tmp.x0kN9sYSqk
Finding latest backup
Restoring: tmp-zuluvm-2016-07-29-100954.dump
Restore tempfile created: 3.3 KiB

For detailed help information, run:

python manage.py dbrestore --help

mediabackup¶

Create an archive (tar) of media files, optionally compress/encrypt, and upload it to backup storage.

$ ./manage.py mediabackup
Backup size: 10.0 KiB
Writing file to zuluvm-2016-07-04-081612.tar

For detailed help information, run:

python manage.py mediabackup --help

mediarestore¶

Restore media files: extract files from the archive and put them into media storage.

$ ./manage.py mediarestore
Restoring backup for media files
Finding latest backup
Reading file zuluvm-2016-07-04-082551.tar
Restoring: zuluvm-2016-07-04-082551.tar
Backup size: 10.0 KiB
Are you sure you want to continue? [Y/n]
2 file(s) restored

For detailed help information, run:

python manage.py mediarestore --help

listbackups¶

This command lists backups filtered by type ('media' or 'db'), compression, or encryption.

For detailed help information, run:

python manage.py listbackups --help