Cohesion Drupal Archive

Since drush 9.x does not support drush archive-dump and drush archive-restore, we decided to create this little tool which does pretty much the same thing in a more primitive way.

There are 2 commands: drupal-archive cda:dump && drupal-archive cda:restore with optional parameters --use-drush in case you have drush <= 8.1.17 and you want to use the native drush commands.

Installing

You will need composer installed with php >= 7.1 and mysql client tools (mysqladmin) on your machine.

It is best to install the package globally with composer:

composer global require cohesiondx8/drupal-archive

Usage

Archiving a drupal website

drupal-client cda:dump <source> <destination> [--overwrite] [--use-drush]

• source is your drupal website docroot (usually /var/www/html).
• destination is the created target archive location.
• --overwrite is whether you want to overwritte your archive.
• --use-drush if you have drush <= 8.1.17 installed then you can use this parameter to call drush archive-dump internally.

Example:

drupal-client cda:dump /var/www/html/web /tmp/backup.tar --overwrite --use-drush -vvv

Restoring a drupal website

drupal-client cda:restore <source> <destination> [--db-url=mysql_url] [--overwrite] [--use-drush]

• source is the archive previously created with cda:dump
• destination is the target directory where your drupal website will be extracted.
• --overwrite is whether you want to overwritte your archive.
• --use-drush if you have drush <= 8.1.17 installed then you can use this parameter to call drush archive-dump internally.

Example:

drupal-client cda:restore /tmp/backup.tar /var/www/html/web-new --db-url=mysql://username:password@localhost:3306/drupal --overwrite -vvv