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Drush User's Guide

By : Juan Pablo Novillo Requena
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Drush User's Guide

By: Juan Pablo Novillo Requena

Overview of this book

<p>Drush is a command line interface for Drupal. Most of the tasks for building and maintaining a website are repetitive and involve filling in forms on administration pages. The majority of these tasks can be achieved with a single Drush command, shortening the development and maintenance time of a project drastically.</p> <p><em>Drush User's Guide</em> will allow you to be more productive and efficient in building and maintaining your Drupal sites through the command line. You will learn to install Drush on different platforms, and manage and configure your Drupal site by learning how to use and create Drush commands.</p> <p>Become a Drush expert by exploring its command toolkit; customizing it to suit your needs, and extending it with contributed modules.</p> <p>The command line will allow you to download, enable and upgrade Drupal projects in seconds. Back up your files, code and data in one single file, clear the cache, interact with databases, and deploy sites to remote machines - all using simply the command line. Use Drush with your own commands or alter existing ones; and extend the toolkit with a long list of contributed modules.</p> <p><em>Drush User's Guide</em> has everything you need to extend your use of the command line to easily build and manage your Drupal sites.</p>
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Backing up and restoring entire websites (archive-dump and archive-restore)


We have done some work on our site and it gets to the point where we start worrying about what would happen if something goes wrong and we lose everything, or if a change in the site will need a rollback that may be tedious. Drush provides a couple of commands to deal with this:

  • archive-dump: This command packs a whole Drupal site including code, files, and database into a single file

  • archive-restore: This command restores code, files, and database into a directory from a previous backup made with archive-dump

For example, let's create a directory out of our Drupal project where we will store our backups and then create one and place it there. Whenever you start to use this command on production environments, it is highly recommended that you copy these backups periodically to a safer machine, out of the server where the site runs.

$ cd /home/juampy
$ mdkir backups
$ cd projects/drupal
$ drush archive-dump
Archive...