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Pack a directory into a ZIP archive

cautionFilesystemalle

Caution: This command changes the system. Understand what it does before you run it.

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user@server
cd /var/www/vhosts/example.com && zip -rq /var/www/vhosts/example.com/private/httpdocs.zip httpdocs

Changes into the parent folder and packs the directory recursively (-r) without listing files (-q). Thanks to the change of directory, the archive contains relative paths like httpdocs/index.php instead of the full server path.

Note: For backups on Linux, tar is usually better because it fully keeps permissions and owners. ZIP is the better choice for recipients on Windows or macOS.

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Extract a ZIP archive into a directory

$unzip -q /var/www/vhosts/example.com/private/upload.zip -d /var/www/vhosts/example.com/private/upload
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Create a dated backup copy of a file

$cp -p -- /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/.htaccess /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/.htaccess.bak-$(date +%F-%H%M)
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Back up a Docker volume to a tar archive

#docker run --rm -v app_data:/data:ro -v /root/docker-backup:/backup alpine tar czf /backup/app_data.tar.gz -C /data .
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Back up a single database consistently as gzip

$mysqldump --single-transaction --quick -u dbuser -p wp_example | gzip > /var/www/vhosts/example.com/wp_example.sql.gz
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Back up a single domain with Plesk tools

#plesk bin pleskbackup --domains-name example.com --output-file=/root/backup-example.com.tar
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Back up all databases into one gzipped file

#mysqldump --single-transaction --quick --all-databases --routines --events | gzip > /root/all-databases.sql.gz
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