Full Dolphin Backup

Dear All,

I installed Dolphin 7.0.4 and added a lot of modules, many of which are paid modules. Now I am concerned about backing up my "whole" dolphin website. Let's say I decide one day to change my internet host, or my website got hacked, or for one reason or another I completely lost my website (all files, database, etc.). What is the best way to backup my dolphin website? Is there any module out there which would allow me after doing a fresh Dolphin 7.0.4 installation, to restore "all" my members, modules, themes, and even blocks order for my site pages?

I am ready to pay for this module if available.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Here's one way to do it:

Back up all the files or the whole public_html folder - You can back it up manually but it will take some time. The best way is to use SSH and just issue a tar command i.e. tar -cvf mysite.ddmmyy.tar.gz publuc_html/

Back up the database -

To backup the database you can use phpmyadmin, select the database, then click export and save it to a file.

Note down the cron tasks manually....

If you have cPanel, there's an option is cPanel as well that you can set to automate the backup tasks...

Cheers

@mods4dolphin

Thank you for your prompt reply. Let me tell you what I did to check if I understood you correctly.

1) I went to phpMyAdmin, clicked the dolphin database, then from the upper menu I cliked on "Export". All tables were already selected and the SQL format was chosen by default, so I just saved the file as _DB_Dolphin.SQL. Is this correct?

2) I am currently downloading all the files via FTP to my computer.

Is this all?

Thank you very much!

Yes, looks good...you can also go to cpanel/cron tasks and write them down somewhere..

As a good practice, you should try to restore back the site at some point from these backups to make sure you are doing everything correctly and can restore the site back anyday if needed.

OK, got it. Thank you very much for your assistance.