Backup and Restore a Website
Daily backups, backups on demand, and restore
Back up and restore a website
Opensolr backs up every project for you each day. You can also take a backup yourself at any moment, of the files, the database or both, and restore one in a few clicks.
Where: Projects › click a project › Git & Deployment › Backup, List & Restore Backups, Backup Log
01 · Daily backups
Every day at 3:00 UTC, each project gets a full backup: files and database. Nothing to set up.
02 · Take a backup now
- Click Backup.
- Choose Files Only, Database Only or Files & Database (recommended), and confirm.
- The button shows Queued..., then Backing up.... A message tells you when the backup is done or why it failed.
- One backup per project at a time. Clicking again while one runs says Backup already in progress.
- The database part is the project's Main Database (Edit Settings). Without one, see Auto-detection.
03 · Restore a backup
- Click List & Restore Backups. Each backup shows its file name, its type (Full, Files or DB), date, size, and whether it is Local or Remote.
- Click the restore button of the backup you want.
- Choose Restore Files Only, Restore Database Only or Restore Both (Full). Only what the backup holds is offered.
- Confirm. The result says what was restored.
Before a files restore, the current project folder is moved aside, and the result shows where. A database restore loads the backup into the project's Main Database with no copy first: export the database before, if you may need its current state.
The trash button deletes a backup for good, after you confirm.
04 · Backup Log
Backup Log lists every step of the project's backups, with the time, and marks warnings and errors.
05 · Where backups are kept
- On your server. When a backup server is set up for it, each backup is also copied there and listed as Remote.
- Older backups are removed automatically. Keep your own copy of anything you need for longer.
- Backups and housekeeping never run at the same time, and housekeeping never deletes a backup.