Creating a back up

[Lmyers]

I am new to CMS as our administrator so am sorry for posting some basic questions but how do you create a backup. Earlier today I tried to update something and as a result lost some things. We are behind in updates but before I do that I would like to create a backup but have no idea how to do it. Thanks for any assistance you can offer.

[Rolf]

Is a *stale* module, but still works for me in 1.11.7
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/mysqldump

[velden]

And of course you want a file based backup. You can use a good FTP client for that (maybe one with verify option) or a backup solution of your host.

Some hosts offer a backup solution that backups database(s) as well as files. And of course the possibility to restore those. That would be my first choice for backup before upgrade.

[paulbaker]

Earlier today I tried to update something and as a result lost some things.

I use my host's control panel to backup and download a copy of the database. Then the same control panel to gzip the whole site and download that.

When you upgrade consider installing
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/archiver
which will keep a backup of your Pages (and other things) as you modify them in the back end.