WordPress backup to Yandex Cloud: mysqldump, rclone, and Telegram notifications

2025-10-15

🎉 WordPress Backup to Yandex Cloud: mysqldump, rclone and Telegram Notifications

Running a site on WordPress is great, but data reliability and security are a priority. Regular backups protect the project from errors, attacks, and failures. In this guide we’ll look at how to create an automatic WordPress backup using:

• mysqldump — for the database,
• rclone — for uploading to Yandex Cloud,
• curl — for notifications in Telegram.

🛠️ Step 1. Creating a Local Backup

1.1 Checking WordPress Configuration

The wp-config.php file is located in the site root (/var/www/ваш_сайт/wp-config.php):