Shell script to upgrade and restore Drupal 7 website
This script will take care of the necessary actions required for upgrading drupal to higher versions.
USAGE
- Copy the script to your webserver.
- Edit the script and change the variables to match with your setup
- Give execute privilege to the owner of the script (chmod u+x upgrade-restore-drupal7.sh)
- Execute the script ./upgrade-restore-drupal7.sh
UPGRADE
$ ./upgrade-restore-drupal7.sh Please enter your choice: 1. Update drupal 2. Restore an old installation from backup 3. Exit 1 Please enter the new drupal version (eg: 7.15) : 7.18 Downloading drupal-7.18 Downloaded the the drupal version drupal-7.18 Current site backup is created: /home/foo/backups/08-01-2013-0938 Database backup created: /home/foo/backups/08-01-2013-0938.sql Site is in maintanence mode now Removed all drupal core files from destination Copied the new version contents Drupal updated to drupal-7.18 Site is active again, but please update your database, please visit http://<yourwebsite>/update.php to finalize the process Removed the source files
RESTORE
$ ./upgrade-restore-drupal7.sh Please enter your choice: 1. Update drupal 2. Restore an old installation from backup 3. Exit 2 List of available backups 08-01-2013-0753 08-01-2013-0758 08-01-2013-0804 08-01-2013-0841 08-01-2013-0849 08-01-2013-0858 08-01-2013-0900 08-01-2013-0904 08-01-2013-0905 08-01-2013-0938 Please enter the backup file name to restore: (eg: 08-01-2013-0753): 08-01-2013-0905 Site is offline now Removed production files Restored the filesystem backup Restored the database Site is restored
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