How to Backup and Restore a Drupal 8 Site
Drupal 8 is here and ready to use right now.
However, not all of the contributed modules are available yet. That includes the Backup and Migrate module, which was the most popular way to backup and restore Drupal 7 sites.
These four videos, sponsored by the excellent team at InMotion Hosting, offer a backup and restore solution that you can use with Drupal 8 today.
That’s really Helpful thank you so much , But are there any tutrials on scripts I can Use To automate This Process with AWS or at least on the server itself ?
I need to let you know that this method doesn’t work if you do an upgrade before doing your restore. (or at least, it doesn’t wirk for me !)
This may be information that peope using Softaculous on CPanel sites need.
The Softaculous Drupal backup works very smoothly and stores on the server, but you can download it too if you want. It backs up both files and database at the same time.
If you want to wind back (say) a month, you need to delete the existing installation, then restore the old one
For example, I just deleted version 8.1.7, then restored 8.1.5 and it works fine (I had made some minor changes that have gone again !)
Hi,
may you be more specific about which part of the process didn’t work for you?
Regards
It seems to me that –
If you have updated to a new version
with Softaculous, then restore from an older version manually using your
method of backup of files and database, then this may “work” on the
site, but it doesn’t work with softaculous and it isn’t compatible with
it any more
Hope I’ve explained this OK !