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Backing up and restoring a Drupal site

Backing up and restoring a Drupal site - Drupal Tutorial

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Backing up and restoring a Drupal site

The tasks you'll learn in this video are the most important you'll learn in the entire course: backing up and then restoring from backup. The truth is though you already know how to do this through a few different ways. If you watch the "Launching a Drupal site" video or the "Using the exercise files" video, you can already piece together exactly how to backup and migrate your site as well as restore from backup. But I want to show you another system that I have only recently started using myself and I think it's really good and well worth knowing because it simplifies the whole process. It's a module called backup and migrate. You can find it at drupal. org/project/backup_migrate. I'll download and install it. I copy the URL in a usual way. Go to Modules and Install. If you need any help doing this of course go back in the course to the area about extending Drupal, then I just click Install, and I enable it. Roll down to the bottom or it's a simple check box and Save configuration…

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