Hi, I’m impressed by the work made in Trellis Bedrock Sage. Thank you so much for this. This is my first try with Vagrant, Ansible and Bedrock. Running VM , create pages and seeing the web result, all was going well… until I want to backup the DB. I installed WP DB Backup and when I tried to cre…

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the development database is stored on the vagrant box. By destroying the box with the destructive vagrant destroy, you also take the development database with it. You’re not limited to plugins to backup the database: you can also use WP-CLI , any database mana…

Would it be a good idea/feature to have Trellis automatically create a database on each halt/destroy so these things don’t happen? There may be couple of reasons, scenarios for this although i don’t know how big the possibilities are: vagrant or vm break and you can’t get into the vagrant box rep…

This has been discussed and implemented in a fork of a previous version of Trellis. Keep database synced between computers in Trellis/Bedrock/Sage setup Personally, I think database management is beyond the scope of Trellis as it’s something that each developer or team will be very opinionated on. …

Thank you for the quick answer @Foxaii , so I should listen my feeling when I was finding the term “destroy” a bit exaggerated to shutdown the VM. I misunderstood the use of the command after seeing it a lot in troubleshooting posts. I know now I must use “halt”. Luckily, most of my html is saved b…

I use Sequel Pro and WP-CLI (mostly for its search-replace function). For menus, I have a wrapper for wp_create_nav_menu so the menus can be created programmatically. It’s no more effortful than using the menu editor. I have previously set menus up on staging then imported the staging database to …

[image] darjanpanic: Would it be a good idea/feature to have Trellis automatically create a database on each halt/destroy so these things don’t happen? One option I use is automysqlbackup which periodically creates database backups across multiple projects. It uses cron to run the backup at w…

Yeah the WP CLI way seems to be the best option as it’s also the cleanest one and it’s already installed in trellis. Thanks.

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jecko February 21, 2016, 1:05pm 9

Yeap, WP-CLI export db works well. Thank you all guys!