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Backup Your Data

Once you have setup your Site(s) you are just one click away form Backup. Go to the main menu select "Backup" and select the Site you wish to backup. Another way to start the backup is to right click on a site object (from the TreeView or the ListView) and select Backup from the menu that appears.

Note: To prevent data corruption only one of these tasks, Backup/Restore or Cleanup, is allowed per site at a time.

After you confirm you will be automatically switched to the Backup View. From there you can view and manage the running Backups. For details about the interface click here.

The label (caption) of a Backup is the date when that Backup was started. So it is recomended to keep your computer's time up to date so that the Backup's date will not mislead you.

You can open a dialog window for each backup by clicking the Details button.

Pause/Resume	You can always suspend a Backup by pressing the Pause button (Only available while the backup is running). To prevent data loss the Backup will only be suspended after the current items are finished. Once the backup is paused the Pause button will change to "Resume".
Abort	To abort the backup press the "Abort" button (Only available while the backup is running). An aborted backup can not be resumed but the data acquired will not be lost and the next backup (for the site being backed up) will reuse this data if it has not been modified (Only for FTP as for SQL is impossible to determine if it has changed without reading it all). Aborted backups will be marked and if you try to restore it you will be notified.
Show Log	Each Backup has a log that is updated as the backup runs. The log can have one of the following statuses: Running, Done, Done with Errors or Done Aborted. If a file appears in the "FTP – Files downloaded" list then that file has been downloaded successfully. If a file appears in the "FTP – Files with errors" list then that file has not been downloaded successfully. If a table appears in the "SQL – Tables downloaded" list then that table has been downloaded successfully. If a table appears in the "SQL – Tables with errors" list then that table has not been downloaded successfully.

After a Backup is started it will appear in the Sites list (in the TreeView and/or ListView) and you can browse-it or copy/paste data from it to your local hard drive or other storage device.
To make sure the data remains the same the backup is Read Only.

How does it work?

FTP

As files are downloaded from your FTP server the information about them (modified date, permissions, if is link etc...) is stored on local .dbf files.
If a new Backup is started and a file (on the FTP server) is found in an older Backup (the files must have the same path, size and modification date) that file will not be downloaded again from the FTP server. A virtual link to the already existing file on your computer will be created.
If an error occurs while downloading a file (such as "Access denied") SiteVault will try to retrieve the file using the HTTP protocol if the setting on "Backup ftp-http equivalence" have been properly set.

SQL

Because most SQL servers from web hosts will not allow outside connections, scripts will be uploaded to your site to allow the access to the SQL server.
They act as an interface for SiteVault allowing it to view/export/import tables and databases.
On the backup process the databases are created as folders on your local hard drive and the tables are text files containing SQL statements.
Because the data is sent/received in chunks you can import/export tables of any size.

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