avionicom Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 I've a website with PS 1.5.5. I manage the backup from Cpanel. The problem is that when I try to download a Full Backup, there is a strange behaviour. Infact, not all PS files are included in public_html folder and, also, there are a lot of folders (modules, admin, smarty, etc.) outside the public_html folder!!! Furthermore, there are a lot of folders like 1, 2, 3....n, etc.... It is possible that this is due to Smarty or a caching system? I fear that the Cpanel Full Backup is not reliable and there are a lot of missing files! What about your experience? Do you do a Cpanel Full Backup? Have you tested it? Thank you for your answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolke Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Full cPanels are reliable from what I experienced. Only catch when you have big backup archives you wont be able to download them through your browser but you would need to use FTP. I think limit is 4 GBs per file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avionicom Posted October 4, 2013 Author Share Posted October 4, 2013 Thank you for sharing your experience. However my website is actually 90MB only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolke Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Well in that case you can make full cPanel in less then a minute and download it to your local hard drive for keeping. I had some similar dilemmas and I still have them when it comes to easy Prestashop backup module. I guess there are some paid modules out there that can solve your problem but real free solution doesn't exist, at least not yet. Check this topic > http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/256688-simple-backuprestoration-modulesolution-for-ps/?hl=%2Beasy+%2Bbackup+%2Bsolution&do=findComment&comment=1282697 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avionicom Posted October 4, 2013 Author Share Posted October 4, 2013 (edited) Dolke, I solved by downloading in two steps: 1)public_html and 2)mysql dump and in this way all works good. Of course full backup was the best & fast solution, but it didn't work. I already read the post you suggested, it infact inspired me. Edited October 4, 2013 by avionicom (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolke Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 If you have hosting with cPanel there is no reason why full cPanel backup shouldn't work. I suggest you to write them a ticket and explain the situation. Of course you can always manually download the files and make a DB dump but I really don't like this solution as it is not elegant I never know what folders/files are prestashop essential and what aren't. Like you said there are lot folder related to some cashing or other junk which you don't need in your backup.Something like Akeeba backup for Joomla would be great to have on Prestashop as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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