Scheduled Magento Database Backups
It is imperitive to keep backing up your magenot database – and I’ll tell you why. Almost everything on a magento website uses the database. If you create a category – thats in the database. If you delete a category – it’s then gone.
To combat this what we tend to do is try to take regular server backups (at least every day), however this backs up the entire server – not simply the database of the particular website that you need to recover.
Normally one would simply go into the magento backend and choose system>tools>backup. This then creates that all important database backup. However it also means you need to remember to do this!
Well there is an extension we have come across that will let your mind rest in peace. Its called Automatic Database Backups and can be found here.
Just make sure you follow our cron job tutorial in order to make this work.Once you have installed this little baby just sit back and watch those sweet sweet backups roll in every morning.
