MagePlace Cloud Backup Extension for Magento

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FEATURES

MagePlace Cloud Backup Extension is a simple but useful solution to back up your Magento web shop to a separate server. Everybody knows how vitally important it is to make regular backups. The loss of critical programs and data can have a significantly adverse impact on your ability to do your work. Timely backup is a guarantee that you can restore your site fast and get back on wheels in case of emergency. But not everybody knows that it’s not enough just to make a backup. Making conventional backups costs time and effort. Backup extension for Magento allows you to schedule your tasks so that they can run even in your absence. Backup files should be stored offsite, on a separate server with easy and prompt access, so you can get and use Magento offsite backup quickly in case of any emergency.

Keeping backups on the same server means you’re secured against software error. This way you can restore site if it has been hacked or harmed after incorrect customization. But keeping backup files on different servers saves you from software and hardware troubles. Modern data centers are very secure but still various kinds of accidents occur – hardware failures, fires, power shortages, floods, cable disconnections with data center and so on.

With this Cloud Backup Extension for Magento it becomes a lot easier to create backup files and to store them on in distant servers. You can back up Database and files of the whole site. With flexible settings you can define what parts exactly you want to backup – whole Magneto database, certain tables of DB, DB with certain folders or files and so on. You can save a backup file to your server (and copy to local computer afterwards) or copy it directly to a distant could storage, for example Dropboxor AmazonS3 Storage Service.

The Magento Backup Extension from MagePlace works with Dropbox and Amazon online storages to create offsite backups. Now users have the possibility to fill in the S3 Amazon storage settings and point out both the bucket and directory, where the archive files will be sending.

In order to work with Dropbox just indicate your Dropbox login details and the extension will send files directly from Magento, without additional fuss form your side. You can define what Dropbox folder to use like online storage for remote Magento site backup and to send files to. You can synchronize Dropbox with your local computer and have up-to-date backup files on all computers you want. You can also share folder on Dropbox and provide access for developers to restore the system.

That’s now possible to adjust the cron scheduler so that the program would automatically carry out the backup of the site or specified databases daily, weekly, monthly or once on the scheduled day and time. You can create as many tasks as you want and change the information saved in a backup task anytime you want. Besides, it`s possible to select cron settings for each individual profile. Moreover you can setup a cron task to send backup files to the cloud server too. The service is automatic and requires no further intervention by the user. In short, cron is used to schedule definite tasks for our Magento backup extension.

MagePlace Cloud Backup Extension include:

• Easy backup of Magento DB and files
• One-click backup creation
• Scheduled backup using cron
• Flexible settings of backup sources
• Indicate folders on local backup server to save backup files to
• Indicate folders on Dropbox to save backup files to
• Automatic file splitting when copying backup to Dropbox*
• AmazonS3 remote storage support
• Backup process logs maintenance
• Saving information both in a log file and in the database.

There are also some requirements to your server where Magento Shop is hosted (all these requirements are common for Magento but still we need to bring them up again):

• RAM memory over 512 Mbytes
• Free space on the server not less than the size of the backup
• Zlib support in PHP. You will need to configure PHP with zlib, but don't worry - most Magento servers have this feature on.

Do not miss the Merge file addon to merge together all the pieces that were sent to Dropbox storage. You will need it if you decide to restore system from backup. Merge script can be found in your members area together with the Backup extension itself. This script can work with local files on your computer as well as files on server.

The Magento Cloud Backup Extension by MagePlace supports Magento Community versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6, 1.6.1 and 1.6.2.

Please note that this extension is provided as is. It is recommended to always backup your installation prior to usage. We can't guarantee proper work of our extension with any 3-rd party extension installed on the eCommerce Platform.Should there be any questions about our extension or installation process, contact MagePlace support team.

DEMO

Take a look at the MagePlace Backup Extension for Magento at our Demo site and try all the features yourself:

See the settings page on the Magento Administrator page

CHANGELOG

Version 1.3.1 [April 24, 2012]

• Added Magento version 1.7.0 support

Version 1.3.0 [March 14, 2012]

• Updated the backup process logging system

Version 1.2.0 [March 6, 2012]

• Changed session usage for backup process
• Fixed error with Magento session storage
• Added Magento version 1.6.2 support
• Minor bugs fixed

Version 1.1.0 [February 8, 2012]

• Added the AmazonS3 remote storage support
• Added the possibility to create the local backup (without sending the backup files to cloud services)
• Added the cron for backup execution with the possibility to select cron settings for each individual profile
• Changed the Dropbox authorization process
• Changed the backup process logs maintaining system
• Expanded an execution speed of backup process

Version 1.0.0 [December 20, 2011]

• Stable candidate released