Whether you’re an experienced store owner or a newbie, by now you should’ve already come to terms with having to create backups before each small or significant website modification. Though it might seem obsessive, to worry about safety to that degree, but it is, in fact, just a rule of proper website management.
Migration of data, especially for large businesses, is a complicated and, at times, risky procedure, so Cart2Cart takes the security aspect of it very seriously. We create backups on your source and target stores before each migration and even before the free demo migration (if you choose so).
However, some might still want to go an extra mile and create database backups on their own. Understandably - that’s the one kind of paranoia we fully endorse. So, if you happen to be a Magento running security freak, the following article is just for you - it’ll describe two simple ways of making data backups and restoring sites from them properly on Magento.
Despite the overall complexity Magento brings, the procedures of backing up and restoring on it are fairly straightforward:
1.Log in to your Magento admin panel
2.Step to System->Tools->Backups
3. You will see three options there - System Backup, Database and Media backup, Database backup
See for yourself which option to choose, and click one of the orange buttons.
4. Confirm your intention in the Warning window and specify backup name in the box that’ll appear next.
Also, you’ll be provided with an option to turn the maintenance mode while the procedure’s is happening. We recommend putting a tick next to it, so that no database changes happen whilst you backing it up.
5. Wait for the the Database backup has been created! message to light up. When it happens, pat yourself on the back - you’ve done good.
Besides Magento’s dashboard, you can log in to to your hosting admin panel and backup database from there.
Since lots of our users seem to use cPanel, we’ll take it as an example:
1.Log in to admin panel, find the Files section and press Backups
2.Again, choose for yourself what kind of website backup to create - full, partial, or just the database backup. In case of the most later option - click on on the name of the needed database.
3.That’s it, in a few minutes look for the database archive in your Downloads folder.
Restoring Magento databases doesn’t really deserve a separate instruction since the entire procedure consists of one step.
In Magento admin panel:
Navigate to System->Tools->Backups, pick the needed backup from the list and click Rollback
In your hosting’s cPanel:
Step to Backups in the Files section, under Restore a Database MySQL Backup, upload your backup archive.
These are not the only methods to backup and restore Magento database but certainly the easiest ones. Might you have other suggestions on the subject, feel free to share them in the comment box. If you'd like to switch to Magento shopping cart, Cart2Cart will gladly help, try it for free right now!
Run your business safely, we wish you the best of luck.
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