Questions tagged [back-up]
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Download database in gzip
With using the CraftCMS builtin database export feature, is it possible to specify the export config to have the file in .gzip instead of just .zip? If, yes, then how can I do it?
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Craft CMS 3 - Manual database backup
Since my hosting provider is blocking mysqldump on its server, I'm trying to do a manual backup of my database in order to import the DB into my test environment.
I'm stuck on the elements to ignore ...
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Can't backup DB locally with MAMP PRO 5.5.1
I have followed the instructions for this article (https://craftcms.com/guides/database-backups-in-craft-3-with-mamp) to get local backups working with MAMP. However, when I attempt a backup, I get ...
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Craft backup “mysqldump: not found…”
I'm getting an error message when trying to back up the Craft DB.
2019-09-04 10:21:09 [-][1][6eba342acf082a62ea47300d68faddf4][error][yii\base\Exception] yii\base\Exception: Could not create backup: ...
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ERROR: relation “assetindexdata_id_seq” already exists on new database
I'm using PostgreSQL locally and everything is working as expected. However, when I decided to move/restore the database to the staging environment I am getting this error (even through the tables do ...
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Can't Backup Database - “Failed with exit code 1” (WAMP Server)
I'm running Craft 3 on a local windows machine, but every time I try to update certain plugins (or Craft itself) I get a message "Couldn't back up the database. How would you like to proceed".
The ...
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Can't login after restoring production DB locally
I'm attempting to restore a postgres DB backup on to my local dev environment but I encounter an error when trying to login as the admin user (the salient parts being):
SQLSTATE[23502]: Not null ...
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Import database backup when using docker
I am trying to import a database backup into a craft instance running on Docker, but none of the fields or content from the latest backup are importing.
Here are the steps I took
I used these ...
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Setting up Craft 3 database backup command for a remote database server
I have my Craft 3 database on a separate server than my Craft webserver (load balancing) and when I use the download database backup function in Craft 3, it doesn't know where to look.
I haven't ...
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How do I restore a site from backup
I broke permissions in a critical craft install. My solution was to install a new version of the craft, move all of the templates from the old site to the new site and restore the MySQL database.
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Craft 3 : Can't backup database (“failed with exit code -1”)
I can't backup database, the log says :
[error][yii\base\Exception] yii\base\Exception: Could not create
backup: The shell command "mysqldump {{...blablabla...}} failed with
exit code -1. in
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Craft 3 Database Backup
Why do I have to activate the PHP functions: "proc_open" and "proc_close" to backup the database?
I got the error logs:
[error][yii\base\Exception] yii\base\Exception: Could not create backup: ...
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Back-up doesn't work in Craft CMS 3 on MAMP locally
I installed Craft CMS 3.0.1 locally on MAMP (Apache/PHP7.0.22), but when I want to do a backup of the database it says:
"There was a problem backing up your database. Please check the Craft logs. Back-...
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Is there a way to clear old database files from storage|backups folder automatically?
We require a way to remove old db files from the storage|backups folder and I was wondering if there is a way to do this automatically or if someone has written a plugin that does it via a cron job?
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DB back-up gives syntax errors on import in new DB
I had this issue on two different sites on two different occasions and hosts.
When creating a database back-up through the Craft CMS admin and importing that SQL file into a new database through PhP ...
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Best practice on importing Craft db backups?
Our team's typical workflow is pull from repo, delete craft tables, import latest db backup, work locally.
We don't want everyone working on the dev server db for early development, because we'll be ...
