What exactly is included in the System backup found under System>Tools>Backups?
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Maybe someone would like to add the tag "Backups" and re-tag this. – byronyasgur Apr 23 '13 at 21:19
It depends on the version.
- For CE 1.5 and lower you can only back-up your database.
- In version CE 1.6 you can back-up your
mediafolder also along with the database, and you can back-up the file system of your Magento instance. All files and folders. - Starting CE 1.7, in addition to what CE 1.6 offers, you can choose to back-up your file system without the
mediafolder.
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Also worth noting is that soft-links are not followed. So a full backup where the media directory is linked to a dir somewhere outside the web root will no actually include the media. – davidalger Apr 23 '13 at 22:39
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Thanks, but do you know what "file system" means exactly? Does it backup all the files in the Magento installation or something. – byronyasgur Apr 24 '13 at 1:46
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2"File system" means the root of your installation except the following
.svn,maintenance.flag,var/session,var/cache,var/full_page_cache,var/locks,var/log,var/report, andmedia` if you choose to ignore it. You can find the list of ignored files and folders in here:Mage_Backup_Helper_Data::getBackupIgnorePaths(). – Marius♦ Apr 24 '13 at 7:14 -
Seemingly to do a full backup you need to do both "System" and database as the "System" backup doesn't include Db files – byronyasgur Apr 11 '14 at 16:18
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@byronyasgur, the db is also backed up inside the tgz in var\xxxx_db.gz – rwired Apr 21 '15 at 15:39
