Gideon

A command line utility to archive a directory and upload it to S3.

Gideon has a number of key features making it the perfect utility for backing up web directories:

• Straight to S3 - The backup is copied straight to S3 through an upload steam
• Filtering - By default bower_components, node_modules & .git are automatically ignored
• MySQL Backup - Include a fresh mysql_dump with the backup
• .env support - Database details are automatically loaded from .env files in common locations
• Stunning terminal interface - Gideon uses Sqwk to provide an intuitive interface

Installation

The application requires Node.js and npm to be installed, instructions can be found at nodejs.org.

With node installed run the following to install Gideon globally.

npm install -g gideon

Or for the latest development release

npm install -g https://github.com/StudioLE/Gideon/archive/master.tar.gz

Configuration

Gideon uses node-config so it's highly configurable. I recommend copying the config/default.json file to config/local.json and editing that so that your changes are not overwritten by future updates.

cd /usr/lib/node_modules/gideon
cp config/default.json config/local.json
nano config/local.json

Usage

Wizard selection

gideon

Run the backup wizard

gideon backup

Run the restore wizard

gideon restore

Config parameters can be defined on the command line as follows

gideon backup --NODE_CONFIG='{"target":"s3"}'

Roadmap / Todo

The following items will be completed before the 1.0.0 release

• Write tests
• Restore from local
• Restore from S3
• Run specific backup directly

Contributing

I'm always on the look out for collaborators so feel free to suggest new features, log an issue or just fork at will.