[Louis]

SlickStack supports remote database such as from DigitalOcean, what about dumping the database to local SlickStack server

[Alice]

Yes it’s supported recently. Before it didn’t work because SlickStack only installed mysql-server package and skipped when remote database was detected in ss-config:

SS_DATABASE_REMOTE="true"

But now it’s fixed.

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/bash/ss-dump-database.txt

Just run ss dump database and you will see it.

[Sophia]

ok where are the dumped database stored?

[Emma]

The dumps are under /var/www/backups/mysql/ directory as .sql files.

[Peter]

Just to clarify, SlickStack now installs mysql-client on your machine if you have enabled remote database in your ss-config.

Otherwise, it will install mysql-server and setup a database locally.

See here:

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/bash/ss-install-mysql-packages.txt

[Deborah]

If anyone is wondering how SlickStack ensures this works for remote database hosts with strange names full of special characters, it’s because of this function:

function ss_mysqldump_user {
    command mysqldump --user="${DB_USER}" --password="${DB_PASSWORD}" --host="${DB_HOST}" --protocol=tcp --port="${DB_PORT}" --no-create-db --no-tablespaces --single-transaction --dump-date --force "$@"
}

Calling these as variables avoids conflicts with mysqldump see this thread

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65595461/how-to-export-mysql-database-from-digital-ocean-managed-database

[Diane]

💯👍🏻

[Frank]

does WP-CLI take care of this

[Janice]

Docs page for this command:

ss dump database

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