automatic restore

[Longri]

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Describe the Scenario

Hello, I would like to copy an existing bookstack instance and have written a script that does all the tasks.

Unfortunately, I can't have this done automatically because I keep getting questions that need to be answered.

This mainly concerns the commands "bookstack-system-cli restore" and "artisan bookstack:update-url"

Is there any way I can execute these commands without being prompted?

The background is that we operate a Boockstack instance which contains documentation of our IT infrastructure. However, if this fails, we also have no access to the documentation. That's why we want to make a daily backup on a RaspberryPi, which we can always access if necessary. Unfortunately, we do not want to and are not allowed to use a cloud solution.

My script looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo restore backup

sudo /var/www/bookstack/bookstack-system-cli restore ~/bookstack-generated-backup.zip

# get act ip address
ip4=$(/sbin/ip -o -4 addr list eth0 | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d/ -f1)

echo act ip is $ip4

echo copy .env template
sudo cp '/home/botiss-admin/.env.template' '/var/www/bookstack/.env'

echo replace template with act ip address
sudo rpl -v '@@@@@@@@@@@@ADDRESS@@@@@@@@@@@@' $ip4 '/var/www/bookstack/.env'

echo replace url_s in database
sudo php /var/www/bookstack/artisan bookstack:update-url https://wiki.botiss.local http://$ip4

echo create new local admin without LDAP
sudo php /var/www/bookstack/artisan bookstack:create-admin --email="[email protected]" --name="test-admin" --password="test1234"

Exact BookStack Version

BookStack v23.12.2

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Hosting Environment

PHP 8.2 Debian 12

[ssddanbrown]

Hi @Longri, For the update-url command, you can add the option --force to force-run the command without confirmations. Note though, the restore command will auto-run the update-url command if a change of URL is made in the .env files.

In regard to the restore command, there is a -n flag for no interaction, but it hasn't really been built for this, so that will bail on the first question (and the questions can be dynamic based upon process/config/scenario).

You could feed in the options yourself though. If you're only promoted on the early "continue?" prompt, you could so something like this:

echo "y" | ./bookstack-system-cli restore ./backup.zip

Otherwise, I think you could feed in multiple options via adding them in the echo command, seperated via newlines.

[ssddanbrown]

Since the original query here was answered with no further follow-up, I'll go ahead and close this off.