Webdomain-only backup via Hestiacli

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Hi everyone,

Is there any way to perform a website backup only via Hestia CLI?
I don’t see it in the documentation but it seems odd that you cannot specify the type since you can restore by type :thinking:

Regards,
Ade

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Hi @Ade

No, as far as I know Hestia doesn’t allow to create a backup only for WEB.

If you want to do so from command line, you could play with backup exclusions file to exclude all but WEB.

Example script, it creates a backup of current backup exclusions file for the user, creates a new backup exclusions file excluding all but WEB, performs the user’s backup and restores the original exclusions file.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
rc=0
USER="$1"
if [[ -z "$USER" ]]; then
        echo "Usage: $0 user"
        exit 1
fi

BIN="/usr/local/hestia/bin"
UDATA="/usr/local/hestia/data/users/$USER"
B_EXC="$UDATA/backup-excludes.conf"
B_EXC_ORI="${B_EXC}.ori"
B_EXC_WEB="${B_EXC}.onlyweb"

echo "Backing up current exclusions file for user $USER"
cp "$B_EXC" "$B_EXC_ORI"

echo "Creating backup exclusions to backup only WEB"
cat <<EOF >"$B_EXC_WEB"
WEB=''
DNS='*'
MAIL='*'
DB='*'
CRON='*'
USER='*'
EOF
"$BIN/v-update-user-backup-exclusions" "$USER" "$B_EXC_WEB"

echo -n "Performing backup (only WEB) for user $USER: "
if result="$("$BIN/v-backup-user" "$USER" 2>&1)"; then
        echo "Backup completed"
else
        echo "Error: Backup failed"
        echo "$result"
        rc="1"
fi
echo "Restoring original backup exclusions for user $USER"
"$BIN/v-update-user-backup-exclusions" "$USER" "$B_EXC_ORI"
rm "$B_EXC_ORI"
rm "$B_EXC_WEB"
exit "$rc"

To execute the script, save it with the name you want, give exe perms and add the user as argument.

chmod +x script
./script HereTheHestiaUser
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Thank you @sahsanu I’ll give it a try!

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