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I have a PrestaShop database running in a docker container that I intend to back up. The thing is, I need to put the e-commerce store into maintenance mode before I run it. Ideally, I intended to run the script on a remote machine - getting it to login via ssh and then interact with the container (via the script) but it seems I may (first) need to log in via ssh then run the script on the server? (as it starts a new shell etc).

These are the parts of the script that I have so far, but I'm just not sure how to put them together to string commands once inside mysql:

#!/bin/bash

# Log in to docker@debVM server via SSH
ssh docker@debVM

# Run the following Docker Container
docker exec -it ps1-7-mariadb-1 /bin/bash

# Login to the database bitnami_prestashop 
mysql -u bn_prestashop -pbitnamiUSER bitnami_prestashop

# Run update - store into maintenance mode
UPDATE ps_configuration SET value='0' WHERE name='PS_SHOP_ENABLE'; 

#Exit the mysql and docker exec
Exit 

#run the backup-volumes-container.sh script
echo running the backup-volumes-container.sh script
cd
cd scripts/
./backup-volumes-container.sh ps1-7-mariadb-1 
./backup-volumes-container.sh ps1-7-prestashop-1
echo Backup-volumes complete

Hope someone can help - thanks!

Chezzers
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    No need to shell into the Docker container, just run the commands from your script on the host: `docker exec -i ps1-7-mariadb-1 mysql -u... -p... bitnami_prestashop -e "UPDATE ps_configuration SET value='0' WHERE name='PS_SHOP_ENABLE';"` There are examples here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28389458/how-to-execute-mysql-command-from-the-host-to-container-running-mysql-server To avoid passing password on the command line (which exposes it to everyone on the machine), you can put it into a config file, eg: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22933056/6089612 – Don't Panic Apr 16 '23 at 07:17
  • its only me on the machine - will that still be a security problem? ...I will def look at the config method. Either way, the command works. Thanks for your help. Really great! – Chezzers Apr 16 '23 at 13:55

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A shell script is a sequence of shell commands, which can be a different thing from what you're typing in the terminal. Your script runs ssh; then when that completes, it (locally) runs docker exec; then when that completes, it (locally, outside a container) runs mysql; and so on. You can in principle provide an input to a command using pipe syntax, but this gets complicated as you step down into several layers.

Some commands have a way to provide their inner command as a command-line argument. For example, mysql -e 'SELECT ...' will run a single SQL call, or docker exec container-name command arg1 will run a single command.

But: I think you can run this completely locally, without any nested commands or docker exec at all.

The one bit of setup you do need to do is to make the database accessible from outside a container. When you start the container, make sure you publish a port

docker run -p 127.0.0.1:12345:3306 ... mysql

If you use Compose, its ports: has the same syntax. If you remove the 127.0.0.1 at the front, the container will be fully network-accessible, which I'm guessing you don't want. The 12345 can be any port number not otherwise in use, but the last number must be 3306 to match the standard database port.

Having done this, on the target system, you can now access the database on host 127.0.0.1 port 12345 directly from the host, without using Docker tools. (Remember that IP address is very context-specific, and it means something different on the local system, the remote system, and in the container.)

You can similarly use ssh to set up a port forward:

ssh -L 127.0.0.1:23456:127.0.0.1:12345 -f -N docker@debVM

Again, 23456 is any otherwise-unused local port, and 12345 matches 12345 from above. Now port 23456 on the local system forwards to port 12345 in the remote system, which forwards to port 3306 in the container.

With this setup, you can now directly run mysql locally

mysql \
  -h 127.0.0.1 -p 23456 \
  -u bn_prestashop -pbitnamiUSER \
  -e "UPDATE ps_configuration SET value='0' WHERE name='PS_SHOP_ENABLE';" \
  bitnami_prestashop

and similarly run your backup script locally, pointing at the port-forwarded database connection.

David Maze
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  • Thanks for your effort and detailed explanation. Im going to try this out. I really appreciate your help! Thanks – Chezzers Apr 16 '23 at 13:58
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If your goal is to run a command on the OS within your docker container, check out docker exec. You can install a mysql client in the dockerfile for your container, and then just use it via docker exec like you would on a host machine.

If you need to get data out of the container, you can map a log file or something to your container as a file volume and have your container write output to that file.

There's an example of what I'm talking about here.

Mike
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