Generate a Backup
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Generate a Backup
To generate a backup go to Actions – Generate Backup in the XCloner menu or click the Generate Backup button on the XCloner start page.
XCloner backups (can) consist of two parts: a backup of your database and a backup of your files.
The Generate a backup screen consists of two tabs.
| Database Options | - controls the settings for the backup of your MySQL database |
| Files Options | - controls the settings for the backup of your website’s files |
Database Options
Database Backup
| Backup database and include in this backup set | - Tick this checkbox for if you want to include your database in the backup. Uncheck this box if you want to exclude your database from the backup. Default is Yes. |
| Add DROP SYNTAX | - Tick this checkbox if you want to add DROP SYNTAX to your database backup. It will add an extra query for each table, the DROP TABLE IF EXISTS query. When importing the sql into a database, tables that already exist, will be deleted and recreated with new data. Default is No. This option is only for advanced users. |
| MySQL Compatibility | - Options are ‘default’, ‘MYSQL40’, ‘MYSQL323’. |
Select tables to exclude from backup
| Current database | - Select any tables from your database that you don’t want to include in your backup. To select multiple tables, hold down the control key and select with your mouse. |
Include extra databases
To include additional databases in your backup, select them here. To select multiple tables, hold down the control key and select with your mouse.
Go to the next tab Files Options to control the settings for the backup of your files.
Files Options
1. Choose a name for your backup or leave the field blank so a name for the backup will be generated by XCloner. XCloner assigns a descriptive name that will help you remember when you made the backup and what it includes. Like this:
| backup_2010-08-25_09-23_yourwebsite.com-nosql.tar | (files only backup) |
| backup_2010-08-25_11-26_yourwebsite.com-sql-nodrop.tar | (files and database, no drop syntax) |
| backup_2010-08-25_11-31_yourwebsite.com-sql-drop.tar | (files and database, drop syntax) |
2. Then decide if you want to exclude any files or folders from your backup. Just tick the checkbox in front of the files or folders you want to exclude. You will see those items appear on the right, in the Excluded Items List.
To go into a folder, just click on its name. To go up one level, click [Up a level] directly above the folder list.
Continue or Cancel After you adjusted all the settings for your backup, click the big Continue button in the upper right-hand corner of the window to start the backup process, or click Cancel if you don’t want to make the backup yet.
After you click Continue XCloner will start by backing up your database (if on the first tab you ticked the checkbox to include the database in the backup) and the following message will appear.
Click the red link Please click here to continue!
XCloner will now make a backup of your files. The time it takes to make the backup depends on the size of your website. You will see your browser screen refresh several times until XCloner has processed all the files.
When XCloner is done, you will see messages appear at the top and bottom of the page, showing you the number of files in the backup and the size of the backup.
For messages generated after an automatic backup, please refer to the Appendix.
Click the red link Click here to continue to be taken to an overview of all your backups: View Backups
