drupal-dump

CLI tool to dump & compress a Drupal database


Installing

The lazy approach to installing this requires sudo (root) access:
``
sudo npm install -g drupal-dump
`

Of course, I do not recommend installing npm packages with sudo unless it's required.

This is how I install CLI tools from npm (like drupal-dump) without sudo:

1. perform these steps: https://gist.github.com/gavinengel/1842179837823dc25730
2. cd ~/bin/_npm/
3. npm install --save drupal-dump

Usage

`
Usage: drupal-dump -u "dbuser" -p "dbpassword" -n "dbname"

# Saves a gzip compressed SQL dump of Drupal database
# to: /home/gavin/tmp/dumps/.sql.gz

Dump & compress a Drupal database

Options:

-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-u, --user MySQL username
-p, --password MySQL password
-n, --dbname MySQL database name
-h, --host MySQL hostname/IP address
-U, --sshuser SSH username
-i, --import import compressed dump file from cache directory into database
-d, --dryrun perform a trial run and output debugging
``

Alternatives

These are alternative projects which can yield achieve a similar result:
* https://www.npmjs.com/package/drush-reloadp
* http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html
* https://launchpad.net/mydumper

License

(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2015 Gavin Engel <>

See: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT