New Backup/restore Module For Yii

shivam4u · December 30, 2012, 2:39pm

Dear All,

I have created Backup/Restore module. I have been using it for all my apps for quite sometime now. It saves lot of time.

I have not added security or access control as of now. You can add that if required for live websites.

unzip the attached code under /protected/modules/

Add following code in config main.php under modules


'backup',

You can specify path for backup files.




'backup'=> array('path' => __DIR__.'/../backup/'  ),

Thats it , now open your app with /backup appended to home url.

Thanks and Regards,

Shiv

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backup.zip

Raoul · December 30, 2012, 9:59pm

can’t find any “attached code”

jacmoe · December 30, 2012, 10:35pm

He said "created" not "attached"

shivam4u · December 31, 2012, 7:26am

I did attach. But i cannot see it now. Let me try again!

jacmoe · January 1, 2013, 10:10am

Very, very useful! Thanks

Raoul · January 1, 2013, 12:26pm

Hi Shiv,

this module is indeed very useful and maybe that could be intresting to share it in the Yii Extension section.

I made some tests and creating/restoring db backup seems to work ok. Maybe you could set the default layout to "column2" to ensure the menu is displayed.

Another problem I found is the upload backup. It refers to widget GxActiveForm … but this widget is not provided.

Thanks for sharing …

jacmoe · January 1, 2013, 12:34pm

GxActiveForm probably belongs to Gii Extended extension ?

shivam4u · January 2, 2013, 12:41pm

Thanks Raoul for your suggestions. Yes right, I am using GxActiveForm.

I shall do a clean install on latest Yii and make it ready again!

Regards,

Shiv

shivam4u · January 2, 2013, 1:23pm

I have removed reference to external components. New zip would work on clean Yii installation.

Thanks,

Shiv

jacmoe · January 2, 2013, 1:32pm

Great!

I also believe that you should be able to submit it as an extension by now.

shivam4u · January 2, 2013, 1:38pm

Thanks :-). Yes, I am about to submit my first extension.

Raoul · January 2, 2013, 1:57pm

yessss … !! I see it is published now ! I’ll download it and test asap.

Thanks Shiv

Raoul · January 5, 2013, 2:58pm

Hi Shiv,

your backup extension works fine, no more dependencies with GxActiveForm or any other missing stuff.

Note that in order for the menu to be displayed the layout must be //layouts/column2

Thanks for sharing

shivam4u · January 7, 2013, 12:15pm

Thanks again !. I have added that in my 1.1 update.

Regards,

Shiv