Johnny Matthews | Creating a Backup and Restore Procedure

This is essentially just a cheatsheet for myself, but it might come in handy for someone else one day. Good luck!

Prerequisites

Composer

1. SSH into your server.
2. Run sudo apt-get install composer.

PIP

1. Run the following commands:

   sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential -y
   sudo pip install --upgrade pip
   sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
   

Downloading the Scripts

1. SSH into your server.
2. Change directory into your DKAN installation: cd /var/www/html
3. Clone the GitHub repository: git clone https://github.com/mohnjatthews/dkan-backup-and-restore.git

Installing the Scripts

These instructions can be found on the GitHub repo home page, and inside README.md.

1. Run cd dkan_backup_procedure to move into the repo folder.

2. Run cp .env-example .env to copy and rename .env-example to .env.

3. Edit the .env file to relfect the details of the server you are connected to:

   username_mysql="SUPER_FUN_MYSQL_USERNAME"
   password_mysql"INCREDIBLY_SECURE_MYSQL_PASSWORD"
   database_mysql="STANDARD_DATABASE_NAME"
   dkan_environment="DEV"
   backup_storage_directory="BACKUP_FILE_LOCATION/"
   

4. Run composer install to install all the PHP dependencies.

5. Install pip by running the following:

   sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential -y
   sudo pip install --upgrade pip
   sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
   

6. Install AWS CLI by running pip install awscli --upgrade --user

7. Add the following line into ~/.bashrc:

   export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
   

8. Run source ~/.bashrc

9. Run aws configure and fill out the form, inputting the correct credentials into each section.

   AWS Access KEY ID [None]: PASTE_KEY_HERE
   AWS Secret Access Key [None]: PASTE_KEY_HERE
   Default region name [None]: eu-west-1
   Default output format [None]: json