Doing a backup of your mysql container's DB can be automated just like any other task. Script below is one way to do it. You may or may not provide a parameter to the script and you'll always get the gzipped version of the backup + its sha256 checksum. Sample Use Case: use it without parameters 1~$ ./backup_db.sh …

1cd /path/to/wordpress 2wp db export backups/name-of-db-backup.sql

1mysql -u root -p your_DB < ./your_system.sql More details in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9696249/restoring-a-mysql-table-back-to-the-database