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php-backupper

🐘 Simple PHP script to compress and download a folder, with authentication and maintenance mode support.

This script is meant to be used with PHP running on an Apache web server. It uses the .htaccess file functionality to enable / disable the maintenance mode.

Tested with PHP 8.1.3.

Usage

Before uploading the script to your web server document directory, you may want to customize the configuration section. In particular, you should definitely change the authentication credentials and use a strong password.

Then you can use it in the following manner:

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curl http://admin:changeme@localhost:8080/backupper.php?action=maint-on
curl -fLo backup.tar.gz http://admin:changeme@localhost:8080/backupper.php?action=backup
curl http://admin:changeme@localhost:8080/backupper.php?action=maint-off

I have decided to split the behaviour into three different invocations so the user can control better what he is doing and check the logs in case of errors.

When you enable the maintenance mode, the script creates a maintenance.php file and an .htaccess file to redirect all the requests to it. If you want to know more about how the script works, just read it. It should be pretty straightforward.

Known issues

As stated here, if you are running PHP under CGI/FastCGI Apache, you should add this line to your .htaccess file to make authentication work:

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SetEnvIf Authorization .+ HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$0

⚠ Unfortunately, when using $cfg['arch_format'] = 'zip', the compression method is "store", so there's no compression at all.