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database backups

Submitted by Nick on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 15:37
Nick
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 Joined: 08/17/2007

I was toying around with Magento and noticed they have a mysql database backup utility in the admin section. Has the ubercart development team considered anything like this? Atm, whenever I do backups I load up phpmyadmin and export the db.

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Just spent 30 seconds and google'd drupal backup module and found http://drupal.org/project/backup

Has anyone used this before?

*2nd edit*
Anyone want to share their preferred backup method?
permalink #1 Tue, 02/12/2008 - 17:32
Shawn Conn

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Yup, I've used the backup module before and it has worked well (NOTE: depending on your webhost's configuration it might not be able to do SQL dumps so check the .sql file after doing a backup to make sure it's not empty). My only problem with the module that currently there isn't a way to do periodic backups using cron.

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permalink #2 Tue, 02/12/2008 - 18:56
Nick
Posts: 55
 Joined: 08/17/2007

Just found another backup module for drupal, and I like it the best so far.

http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

It is a database backup module that allows crons.