/bin/sh: Backup Wordpress to Gmail
The code below was written pretty quickly. It backs up the Wordpress directory, the mySQL table, zips it then emails it to the specified gmail account. Mutt must be installed.. change the variables to suit your environment.
#!/bin/sh
theDate=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d`
######### backup DB ##########
/usr/local/bin/mysqldump -A -u root --password=myPass > /tmp/mysql-${theDate}
cd /tmp
tar -czf mysql-${theDate}.tgz mysql-${theDate}
######### backup wordpress dir containing all blogs ##########
cd /www
tar -czf wordpress-${theDate}.tgz wordpress
mv wordpress-${theDate}.tgz /tmp/
######### send mail (10MB limit so send individual emails) ##########
######### (also throws in a copy of httpd.conf for good measure) ##########
mutt -s "mySQL backups (${theDate})" -a /tmp/mysql-${theDate}.tgz mybackupaccount@gmail.com> /dev/null
mutt -s "wordpress backups (${theDate})" -a /tmp/wordpress-${theDate}.tgz -a /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf mybackupaccount@gmail.com > /dev/null
######### cleanup ##########
rm /tmp/mysql-${theDate}
rm /tmp/mysql-${theDate}.tgz
rm /tmp/wordpress-${theDate}.tgz
