xF2 Add-on in Credit [Earl] Board Active Cli 1.0.0a 1.0.0a

This add-on allows you to turn your board on and off with command line interface.

So you can use this option to flip the "Board active" switch when you preparing to make a database backup and flip it back on when done.

You can automate the whole backup process by making a shell script like this and adding it to the crontab
[/B] Bash: ############################################################################ vhost_path=/home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com public_doc_dir=$vhost_path/public random_string=$(cat /dev/random | tr -dc '0-9' | fold -w 256 | head --bytes 7) backup_dir=$public_doc_dir/backups/$(date +"%d-%m-%Y")/$random_string elastic_snapshot_repo=/home/es_repo dbuser=$(grep username $public_doc_dir/src/config.php | awk -F\' '{ print $6 }') dbpass=$(grep password $public_doc_dir/src/config.php | awk -F\' '{ print $6 }') dbname=$(grep dbname $public_doc_dir/src/config.php | awk -F\' '{ print $6 }') ############################################################################ # # # BACKUP PROCESS # # # ############################################################################ mkdir -p $backup_dir # board active switch turns to off /bin/env php $public_doc_dir/cmd.php xf:board-active off -m "Sorry for the inconvenience but we're performing some maintenance at the moment. we'll be back online shortly!" mysqldump --opt --default-character-set=utf8mb4 -u$dbuser -p$dbpass $dbname > db$(date +"%d-%m-%Y").sql .... ... .. # Board active switch turns to on and message sets back to the default /bin/env php $public_doc_dir/cmd.php xf:board-active off -m "Sorry, we're currently unavailable. Please check back later.." [B]

example usage:
php cmd.php xf:board-active on -m "Sorry, we're currently unavailable. Please check back later.."