Backing up your site (GUI)
Last modified: August 9, 2007 - 13:11
Backup your Drupal files
Using your FTP client, download all your existing Drupal files to your hard drive and put the files in a folder called 'backup'.
Backup your database with phpMyAdmin
- Select your database from the dropdown box on the left

If you are upgrading a test site, choose your test site database. - Click the "Export" tab

- Click "select all"

- Make sure to check the "structure" and "data" checkboxes

- Check "Save as File" desktop

- Click the "Go" button and save the .sql file to your desktop. Let's put it in the same 'backup' folder where you backed up your Drupal files.


More Verbose/Visual How-To
This page is much a much more verbose/detailed how-to:
And it links to this visual phpMyAdmin how-to: