Making Backups

Making backup:

• Full backup:
  1. Open CMS tool "Setup", select "Data base" tab and export data into XML files (press buttom "Export CMS DB")
  2. Make virtual server document root current working directory
  3. Run unix shell command: tar -cv . | gzip > cms.tar.gz
  4. Open CMS tool "Files" with builtin administrator logged
  5. Click on volume "Site"
  6. Download cms.tar.gz file and place in safe place
• Daily backup:
  1. Open CMS tool "Setup", select "Data base" tab and export data into XML files (press buttom "Export CMS DB")
  2. Make virtual server document root current working directory
  3. Run unix shell command: tar --exclude 'srv' -cv . | gzip > cms.tar.gz
  4. Open CMS tool "Files" with builtin administrator logged
  5. Click on volume "Site"
  6. Download cms.tar.gz file and place in safe place
• Optional MySQL backup:
  • Make backup using MySQL admin tool or
  • Make backup using MySQL Workbench tool or
  • Make backup using mysqldump program

Note: empty folders before making backup:

• /cms/log
• /cms/templates_c
• /cms/templates_cache
• /cms/temp