By bvana1 on

Thanks.

I gotta say, I'm soooo impressed with Drupal so far, it rocks!!

I really need a simple explanation of how to backup your site.
There's gotta be a "backup Drupal for dummies" solution. right?
I've been-a-lookin and haven't found it yet.

Peace out!

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dman’s picture

dman commented

You are best off with whatever backup procedure your host provides, so first get familiar with that. That is different for all hosts, but all the good ones have tools for that. You''l need a total file backup (eg weekly) and a database snapshot (maybe daily).
That's what you need for catastrophic disaster recovery and offsite backup.

Within the Drupal system, you can use the backup_migrate module for incremental restores, but that won't be working in the case of a total annihilation, so see what you can do through your control panel first.

For anything more comprehensive, it'll depend a lot on how much access you have to the server, eg to run shell scripts and cron jobs.

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

bvana1’s picture

bvana1 commented

Thanks Dan,

right now I have my web on my localhost, using wamp for a server.
I would think phpadmin export would help? if there's detailed doc's
i can't find em. "site is down for maint"

cayenne’s picture

cayenne commented

I use that to make an export of my database.

There's a nice backup module that I have on a few sites for automated backup. See it here: http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

:)