How to back up

[dman76]

What is the best way to backup the entire cart? If I want to install a module, or change some settings, or anything, what is the best way to revert it back to the way it was?

[stage]

If your host has cpanel, there are built in utilities to back up your files and databases. I prefer to do it manually, it seems for me to work a little quicker and I can see the files and what's there, giving me some confidence.

If you use a tool like Dreamweaver its fairly easy to download all your files so they are in place on your hard drive. For your database you can go into MySQLAdmin and do an export to SQL, save it as a text file and keep it in a safe place.

All kinds of different backup strategies, the bottom line is its a good idea to do them on a regular basis, especially on your database.

As far as doing a restore, for your database again using the MySQLAdmin tool, you can import the previously saved SQL text file. As far as the files, it can get rather messy to restore all of them unless you have to. I would recommend when you installing a mod, backup the effected files, put them in a safe place. If you have a problem and need to revert, only replace those effected files with your backups.

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[GoodBuyGail]

Hrm, is there by any chance an addon that just zips up all the files all downloads them, plus puts a copy of the relevant SQL file to rebuild the db in the zip, if not, someone should make that(actually, I might be able to, I guess thats a project for right after I get the store up )

[stuffdone]

What is the best way to backup the entire cart? If I want to install a module, or change some settings, or anything, what is the best way to revert it back to the way it was?

Where is the backup tool in the cart admin section?

There is no way an end user is going to know how to use phpAdmin even if I gave them access to the server to do so.

in the underlying OSC there is a regular BACKUP under the tools but I can't seem to find any means to backup the database inside the Zen admin control panel??