cwp db export

cwp db export [file] [flags]

Local only: it acts on no environment.

Argument	What it is	Default
[file]	target file (default: -.sql.gz)

Flag	What it does	Default
--with-agent	with —dry-run on a host with no shell: install and remove the PHP agent so the plan is real	off

Plus the shared flags --json, -v, --verbose, -q, --quiet and --dry-run.

What it does

cwp db export runs ddev export-db and writes the local database to a file. With no filename the default is <project>-<timestamp>.sql.gz in the current directory.

Example

cwp db export
cwp db export handover.sql.gz

What it does not do

It exports the local database, not a remote one, and not the uploads.

An exported dump is an unscrubbed copy of whatever is local. If it came down from production and you skipped the scrub, personal data is in that file. cwp says so after every export. The scaffolded .gitignore keeps *.sql and *.sql.gz out of the repository. The file is still on your disk and still yours to handle.