Backup: Protection of your data
Backup is one of the few functions that becomes extremely important when you are going to use it but, on the other hand, it can also be catastrophic if things don’t work as they should. The control panel gives you the opportunity to establish lost or damaged data quickly and flexibly, so that any damage or human errors have as limited effect an effect as possible. The control panel gives you the following options:
Download backup:
This function allows you to download a copy of the web server content home to your local server. You can choose to download the most recent backup or one of the previous copies, just as you can choose to download a complete copy or several partial copies. The choices depend upon the services you use, naturally it will be possible to download a backup of the database is you actually have this included in your subscription.
The content is packed into a zip-file with one press of the button “Ready file", which can then be downloaded by clicking on the link at the bottom of the menu window.
Restore complete backup to webserver:
This function enables you to reload the entire website from a backup with the press of a single button. If you, by accident, have deleted part of a website, you can choose “Do not overwrite", whereby only non-existing files are reloaded, all other files are not touched.
Restore statistics:
Reloads data from special functions, for example, statistic files. It has been experience before that a bit too thorough clean up has cost the "status" library its life; here is a reload tool... ;-)
Restore specific file(s):
It can happen that one accidentally deleted a file that should actually have been saved and one often discovers this after some time. With this function you can go back in the old backups and fish out a single (or more) files and folder from among those that have been saved. Choose the desired date from the list and click on “Select files” in order to receive a list of the folders and files that are available in the backup.
Then select the file(s) or folder(s) that shall be reloaded from the backup as well as the method to be used: "Original location-overwrite" (replaces all files), "Original location-do not overwrite" (only reloads files that do not previously exist or “New folder” that reloads the files into a new folder on the server, where you can examine them and then move them to their correct location.