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mxgross / EasyBackupBundle

Kimai 2 Plugin for easier backups
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Add ability to automatically start backups via defined cron job #14

Closed mxgross closed 1 year ago

mxgross commented 4 years ago

The user should be able to define a cron job, so that e.g. every night a backup is created.

mxgross commented 4 years ago

Idea:

Currently I don't see any other way to do this with symfony only.

darioseidl commented 3 years ago

Thank you for creating this plugin. The ability to start the backup with a cronjob would be really nice. Did you maybe come up with a solution?

mxgross commented 3 years ago

Hi, no I have not worked on this feature yet.

Tobisaninfo commented 1 year ago

Hi, I just started using your plugin and I like it a lot. The cron job feature would be really nice to have :) In addition I would like to ask, is there any option to create backup through the CLI (bin/console command)? If this is possible, I can create my own cron trigger with OS tools.

mxgross commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for your feedback. I started building a command so the backup creation could be done via terminal/command line. e.g. php bin/console EasyBackup:backup. But I still need to figure some things out.

Tobisaninfo commented 1 year ago

That's nice :) I'm looking forward for this feature.

mxgross commented 1 year ago

Hi @Tobisaninfo , @darioseidl I implemented it at the 'BackupCommand' branch. Would it be possible that you also test it? Pull-Request: https://github.com/mxgross/EasyBackupBundle/pull/51 I also append the ReadMe, but to make things short, this is how you can set it up as cronjob:

crontab -e to open the file for editing. ' * php /var/www/html/kimai2/bin/console EasyBackup:backup > /home/YOUR-USERNAME/EasyBackupCron.log' This will execute a backup every minute (for testing purpose) and you can check the log if anything fails.

But you can also call the command directly via terminal.

Maybe @kevinpapst will also have a look at it and suggestions for improvement. But my plugin is not yet Kimai2 Version 2 ready.

Thanks

Tobisaninfo commented 1 year ago

Hi @mxgross,

I checked out your branch on my kimai installation und on reloading the cache I got this error:

[ERROR] Expected to find class                                                 
         "KimaiPlugin\EasyBackupBundle\Tests\Command\EasyBackupBackupCommandTest
         " in file                                                              
         "/opt/kimai/var/plugins/EasyBackupBundle/Tests/Command/EasyBackupBackup
         CommandTest.php" while importing services from resource "../../*", but 
         it was not found! Check the namespace prefix used with the resource.

To reload the cache, I use this command: docker exec kimai2-kimai-1 php /opt/kimai/bin/console kimai:reload --env=prod. (Yes my docker container name is a little bit strange with all of these numbers 😄)

Thanks a lot for your effort to implement such a command.

mxgross commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your feedback @Tobisaninfo Kevin already had very good suggestions for my pull-request. I will work on them and also fix the namespace error you mentioned.

mxgross commented 1 year ago

Hi @Tobisaninfo, I merged my code into the master. Please let me know if it works as expected.

Tobisaninfo commented 1 year ago

Hi @mxgross,

thank you very much for your fast help. I checked your new version out and could create a backup right from the CLI as expected. So it works great for me. My cron trigger looks like 0 2 * * * docker exec kimai2-kimai-1 php /opt/kimai/bin/console EasyBackup:backup 1>/var/opt/kimai/log/backup.log. So now every night, a backup will be created.

Thanks again :)

mxgross commented 1 year ago

Cool, thanks for your fast reply :)