I´m ready with my first magento shop. I´ve just a little question: Is it required to backup the system every wekk / months? How strong is magento? Is it possible that the system no longer works at once?
So how do you handle the backup in magento? How often do you backup the system? And what do you backup? database / ftp files / customer export?
You can take files, Database, media backups from System > tools > backups as you done with your Magento site, you can take backup now, no need to take any backups until you change something related to files or database, but before you do any changes better to take backup of particular files & if you want to do any major database changes, then you need to take DB backup.
Also you can put Scheduled backup in magento by system > configuration > system > backups daily / week /monthly once in backend.
These backups will be stored in var/backups folder, so that you need to copy to your local system.
Personally I, rather than using magento default functionality to take backups, I rely on doing it manually on server level. I have made a sh script (on linux server) which does this periodically for me, get downloaded to a backup server(or my machine) and got deleted when the download is finished. I rely on this because i dont want to make my setup heavy with span of time.
cat app/etc/local.xmlGet db credentials from here
mysqldump -u user_name -ppassword database_name > path_to_document_root/database_name.sqlTake database dump and put in document root (or any place you wish)
tar -cvf backup.tar site_folder/Compress the site containing files and database from step 2
gzip backup.tarThis is optional, if you wish to compress it in more smaller size
Download or transfer files using scp or download link. May this help someone looking for an alternative process.
