• Main Menu
• The Toolbar
• The Browser
• Backup View

To make the SiteVault easy to understand and use. We made the interface look like a usual Explorer window. You will find that almost all the features of SiteVault can be found by right clicking on the items found in the TreeView or ListView. For example: right clicking on a FTP Connection will bring you five actions in the ContextMenu – New file, New folder, Delete, Refresh and Properties; Backups can be started by right-clicking on a site item and selecting `Run Backup` from the menu that opens.

Sometimes the easiest way to take an action is by using the menu. For example: Click Backup from the main menu, select the site you wish to backup, confirm and that's it.

File	From here you can create new accounts and manage them. To create an FTP account select New FTP/SFTP Account, for an SQL Account select New SQL Account and for a new Site definition select New Backup Profile. To edit an FTP account select FTP Accounts, a menu will open containing a list of all the FTP accounts, select the account you desire. The operation is similar for an SQL Account or for sites.
Backup	Select a site, confirm and the backup is on the way.
Schedule	This menu allows you to schedule backups for your backup profiles. Click on Manage Backup Schedule to open up the backup manager window. Click on Automatic Cleanup to open up the cleanup manager, here you can schedule the number of backups you want to keep (in order to save space).
Tools	Execute an SQL query on any SQL account you want by pressing Execute SQL Query. Click Import to open the window that allows you to import settings and accounts from older versions of SiteVault.
Help	Gain access to our easy to use (HTML) help, send feedback, visit our site and more.

Provides access to Instant FTP, Running Backups and an easy/fast way to add your FTP/SQL/Site information.

Home	Goes to the Home page of the application, where you can find basic statistics about your backups, tips and links to video tutorials.
Add FTP Account	Opens up the window that enables you to create a new FTP Account.
Add SQL Account	Create a new SQL Account.
Add Backup Profile	Create a new Backup Profile.
Instant FTP	Switch between the regular tree view and the Instant FTP with the double explorer view. Instant FTP enables you to transfer quickly files between different locations.
Search	Search any drive, folder, ftp account, backup profile using this search box. In order to use it you have to select a drive or a folder from the file explorer. The search will be executed in the selected location.
Running Backups	Click on it to view the list of currently running backups.

It's a very complex object built on a strong multithread and event driven architecture to avoid those frustrating locks and keep data synchronized.

Here you can find:

Local Computer	Your local store devices Floppy Disk(s), Hard Drive(s), CD/CD-RW/DVD Drive(s), Flash Disk(s) etc
FTP Accounts	The FTP Connections created for each FTP Account
SQL Accounts	The SQL Connections created for each SQL Account
Backups	The content of all Sites - Each site contains an FTP folder (if defined) and an SQL database (if defined). Also each site contains a list with all the backups (ready to explore)

Feel free to right click on the items. You will see that a menu with all the relevant actions for that item will be displayed. It works just like an Explorer. Note: some actions will be forbidden to maintain data integrity. For example: you can copy paste a backup's FTP folders/files to a folder on your hard drive but not the other way around).

If you do not like the tree on the left side you can hide-it by pressing the button shown in the picture. To make it reappear press the button again. SiteVault will look like a Norton Commander (or Windows Commander) if you switch to Instant FTP.

Once you start a backup the interface will switch to Running Backups. In this mode you can see the progress of your backups.

The first column represents the caption (name) of your site. If you wish to see more information for a backup, press the Details button. You can Abort a backup or view the Logs using the buttons on the right side.

Note: You do not have to keep the software open to run the backups. You can close the SiteVaultPro interface anytime you like and the backup will still continue in the background because SiteVaultPro runs as a service.

Usually you will keep more than one site on the same web host. In this case SiteVault becomes invaluable.

First you specify the FTP Account for your site followed by the SQL Account. After that each Site is defined as:

• a folder on your FTP Account
• a database (or a collection of tables) from the SQL Account

Any one of these two is optional. You can have a Site without an SQL Account or you can skip the FTP Account if you are only interested to Backup/Restore your database.

• Setting an FTP Account
• Setting an SQL Account
• Setting a Site

In order to access your site's files SiteVault contains a FTP client. You may create as many FTP accounts as you want and can have them connected at the same time as well. Note: Some site hosts will not allow multiple connections from the same IP address.

Caption	The caption of the FTP Account. It will help you identify your account.
Server Type	You can choose one of multiple FTP types: FTP (plain FTP), SFTP(SSH), FTPS(implicit FTP over TLS) and FTPES(explicit FTP over TLS).
Host	The FTP server's name/IP you wish to connect to.
Port	The port on which the FTP server is listening for connections. The default value is 21 for plain FTP (Optional).
Username/Password	The username and password to communicate to the FTP server for authentication.
Root path	Once connected to the server a you start from a path specified by the FTP server. Here you can specify a different start path (Optional). We recommend you to select the web directory, the directory where your site can be found.
Use HTTP Gatway for backups	It is recommended that you use this option. The gateway will allow SiteVault to transfer the files at a greater speed than regular FTP.
URL Path	The URL of your website. SiteVault will fill it in automatically, please modify is it is not correct.
HTTP FTP Path	The FTP path to your website directory. SiteVault will try to detect it automatically.

This can be a bit tricky until you understand how it works. But after that it will only take you a right-click to Export/Backup your databases. So here's how: • In order for SiteVaultPro to backup your database(s), some scripts must be uploaded to your FTP account (because most hosts will not allow connections to the SQL server from another IP). • Then SiteVault will use them to Backup/Restore your database(s) through the HTTP protocol. • SiteVaultPro will create a special folder for them ex: "/public_html/__svpro-0d6F4j2". • You must make sure that the scripts will be visible for the Web. Ex: http://www.your-site.com/__svpro-0d6F4j2

FTP Account	Select the FTP account where the gateway will be uploaded.
Caption	The caption of the SQL Account. It will help you identify your account.
Host	The host is usually "localhost" because the SQL server is usually on the same computer as your site's scripts. If it is a different one please specify.
Port	The default port is usually the right one but if your SQL server listens on a different port please specify it.
Username/Password	The username and password required to connect to the SQL server.
HTTP FTP Path	The FTP path where to place the scripts
URL Path	SiteVault must use these scripts with the HTTP protocol. So a valid URL that will indicate the folder where the scripts are placed is required
Save & Upload Gateway	Will attempt to automatically upload the scripts to the specified FTP folder using the selected FTP Account.

The scripts do not represent a security threat because they do not contain the username and password required to connect to the SQL server. The information needed to connect will be sent to the scripts each time they are needed through GET/POST.
Note: If you need additional security you can restrict access to the scripts and only allow requests from your IP(s). Place the scripts in a separate folder. Create a ".htaccess" file and add these lines to it:

#begin .htaccess file
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from your-domain-or-ip.com
#end .htaccess file
For additional information on security issues for Apache HTTP servers go to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html
Or contact us at support@site-vault.com

A Site is defined as a folder on your FTP Account and a database (or a collection of tables) in an SQL Account. Any one of these two is optional. You can have a Site without an SQL Account or you can skip the FTP Account if you are only interested to Backup/Restore your database.

Caption	The caption of the Site. It will help you identify your Site
FTP/SFTP Backup	From this tab you can select the FTP account you would like to backup and the folders you would like to include/exclude from the backup.
Sql Backup	Select the SQL Account and then the database that contains the tables for this Site. You can set SiteVaultPro to backup all databases by selecting the root element in the database explorer window.
Local Pc Backup	In this tab you can select multiple folders and files from you local computer. Click on the tab and select the files/folders you would like to include/exclude. It's a very useful feature for backing up important data from your computer.
Schedule	If you would like to run backups automatically at certain time intervals, click on `Schedule backup` checkbox to enable it.
Cleanup	Select the number of the backups you would like to keep for the current profile. You can keep them all if you select `None` to all periods in the Cleanup tab or you can keep a constant amount of backups by selecting a Cleanup preset or entering manually the number of backups to keep.

Click on Manage backup paths if you want to add a new path to the list of backup locations.

Once you have setup your Site(s) you are just one click away from Backup. Go to the main menu and select "Backup" and choose the Site you wish to backup. Another way to start the backup is to right click on a backup profile in the backup explorer and select Run Backup from the menu that appears.

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

After you confirm you will be automatically switched to the Running Backups 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 view more information of each backup by clicking the Details button.

Abort	To abort the backup press the "Abort" button (Only available while the backup is running). If you would like to resume an aborted backup please right-click the backup in the Backup Explorer and choose the Resume option.
Logs	Each Backup has a log that is updated as the backup runs.

After a Backup is started it will appear in the Backups list (in the backup explorer) 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 in a local database.
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.

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 stored in the local database.
Because the data is sent/received in chunks you can import/export tables of any size.

To restore a site go to `Backups` in the Backup Explorer, open the backup profile and right-click the backup. From the context menu select Restore Backup. See the image.

After that a confirmation window will appear. Please do not rush to confirm.
You can restore a damaged Backup with low risks because the files/tables that exist in the backup are intact. This means that SiteVault will only keep successfully and completely downloaded items.

The Restore task will also attempt to set the FTP permission as they were at Backup. Note: To prevent data corruption only one of these tasks, Backup or Cleanup, is allowed per site at a time.

First of all you must know that by definition the FTP protocol doesn't allow multiple tasks (requests) on the same connection.
Due to the fact SiteVault must handle multiple requests on the same FTP connection we built a very powerful FTP client that is capable of managing a virtually unlimited number of requests.
You will be pleased to see that while a Backup or Restore task is in progress you will still be able to access your FTP connection (that is involved in the Backup/Restore process).
Basically you can do an unlimited number of tasks on the same FTP connection. SiteVault request-management system will take care of the rest.

Even more: browsing data will have priority. That means that when you open (select) a folder the task of reading that folder will be moved on the top of the queue.

Tree browsing mode especially created for FTP.

You will also enjoy an interface that do not locks, due to the fact that all tasks are processed on different threads. Copy/Paste from one FTP connection to another is also supported.

The new PHP gateway will allow you to copy files a lot faster than using regular FTP. This means the backups will run faster and it will use less resources.

First of all you must know that by definition the FTP protocol doesn't allow multiple tasks (requests) on the same connection.
Due to the fact SiteVault must handle multiple requests on the same FTP connection we built a very powerful FTP client that is capable of managing a virtually unlimited number of requests.
You will be pleased to see that while a Backup or Restore task is in progress you will still be able to access your FTP connection (that is involved in the Backup/Restore process).
Basically you can do an unlimited number of tasks on the same FTP connection. SiteVault request-management system will take care of the rest.

Even more: browsing data will have priority. That means that when you open (select) a folder the task of reading that folder will be moved on the top of the queue.

Tree browsing mode especially created for FTP.

You will also enjoy an interface that do not locks, due to the fact that all tasks are processed on different threads. Copy/Paste from one FTP connection to another is also supported.

Because SiteVault uses scripts on your site to connect to the SQL Server it doesn't matter if your host allows or not outside connections to the SQL Server.

Also SiteVault reads and writes data in chunks so there are no size restrictions and transfers go smooth without locks.

You can use SiteVault to load an Sql file into the database (no size limits) or event to load a databases's Sql dump into another database.

You can also save the Sql dump of a database to you computer.

This is as simple as it sounds. After you have created an SQL account a virtual SQL connection will be created. Each SQL database is presented as a folder and a table will result in a text file containing SQL statements.

You can select a database, right click, and press Save Sql Dump from the menu. A window will appear where you can select the location of the Sql Dump and some exporting options. Due to the fact that data is read in chunks size doesn't matter. You can successfully export huge tables.

It displays basic information about a file or folder.

You can find out what's taking space and/or the total size (including subdirectories) of your FTP folders.

Status	The status can have to values: Scanning while it is parsing the directory structure and calculating the total size, Completed after it has finished scanning. In case of large directory structures it can be stuck in scanning mode for a while.
Type	The type of the current item(s): local, ftp or backup.
Location	The full path to the directory where the selected files are located.
Size	The total size of all files (file from directories and subdirectories are added too).

CTRL+SHIFT+F	New FTP account	CTRL+SHIFT+S	New SQL account
CTRL+SHIFT+W	New Backup profile (Wizard)	CTRL+SHIFT+P	New backup profile
F11	Browser mode view	F12	Running backups
F1	Help	F8	Toggle Instant Ftp
Backspace	Up one level	CTRL+A	Select All
CTRL+X	Cut	CTRL+C	Copy
CTRL+V	Paste	DEL	Delete
F5	Refresh	CTRL+R	Refresh
CTRL+SHIFT+B	Backup	CTRL+SHIFT+R	Restore
CTRL+O	Open	F4	Edit / View
CTRL+Q	Exit	CTRL+L	Show Log
CTRL+P	Properties Window

	The default icon for unknown files.
	Move one folder up.
	Local computer
	Local disk
	Folder
	Root for all FTP Connections
	FTP Account
	Linux Link
	Root for all SQL Connections
	SQL Account
	SQL Table
	SQL Database
	Root to all Sites
	Site's FTP folder
	Site backup profile (has no backup yet)
	Site backup profile (does not have any backup from this week)
	Site backup profile (has a backup form this week)
	Backup
	Running backups
	Search results