periodicjs.ext.backup

Backup your current instance of periodic to a zip archieve containing your configurations, content, themes, and database.

API Documentation

Installation

$ npm install periodicjs.ext.backup

Usage

export periodic backup (content, themes, config, files & database) to a zip file from the cli

$ node index.js --cli --extension backup --task backup [--filename optionalbackupzipname --outputpath optionaloutputdirectory]

restore periodic from a backup zip file backup from the cli

$ node index.js --cli --extension backup --task restore --file /path/to/backupzipfile.zip

If no file path is specified, the default file path is content/files/backups/backups/dbemptybackup-[year]-[month]-[day]-[timestamp].zip

##Development Make sure you have grunt installed

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

Then run grunt watch

$ grunt watch

For generating documentation

$ grunt doc
$ jsdoc2md controller/**/*.js index.js install.js uninstall.js > doc/api.md

##Notes

• Check out https://github.com/typesettin/periodicjs for the full Periodic Documentation
• example backup: clear && node index.js --cli --extension backup --task backup --filename mybackup --outputpath ~/Downloads/myperiodicbackup