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  To access your Generate Backup screen you need to click on the left menu Actions -> Generate Backup

  On the following screen you will have 3 major tabs:

   1. Database Options Tab

   2. Structure Tab

   3. Files Options Tab

   4. Process Details

   1. Generate Backup -> Database Options Tab

        This tabs basically controls how the database backup should be handled

         1a.  Backup database and include in this backup set - checked by default, it will create a backup of the database and include it in the archive files, in location administrator/backups/database-sql.sql

         1b. Add DROP SYNTAX - if this is checked, it will add an extra query for each table, the DROP TABLE IF EXISTS query, this means that when importing if the in use table exists it will be deleted first and then created with the new data

         1c. Select tables to exclude from backup: - you have the option to exclude certain tables from the database backup, by holding the keyboard CTRL key and clicking the left mouse you can select multiple tables to be excluded

   2. Generate Backup -> Structure Tab

      This tab allows you to exclude certain entities from your backup,  like a certain component, modules or plugin(mambot)! The backup process will exclude all files and database records of those entities! To exclude each one of them, you have to click the checkbox near it

 3. Generate Backup -> Files Options Tab

    This tab handles the files management of your backup!  Here you can exclude  certain files and/or directories from the backup. Please note that excluding an entire directory means you willl also exclude all it's files and sub-drectories! The only exception is administrator/backups directory, which contain some in use files which will be included, but the rest of the select data will be excluded 

    Generate Backup Process Details 

      After you hit the Continue button on top, the backup process will start it's function, it will backup the database tables if included, and add the select files into the archive! Do not interrupt its running, if you do the backups will be incomplete!

      *Please note that for the automatic process, you should get a confirmation message like this:

  Where:

  Archive Name - is the name or the created backup

  Number of Files - the total number of files the backup has

  Size of Original Archive - the size of the backup without archiving

  Size of Archive - the current archive size on server

  Database Backup Settings - will get you a message saying how the database backup went, you can check the file size by opening the archive and looking at file administrator/backups/database-sql.sql

      **For  the manual backup process you will get several screens loading until the final screen where you will see the total backup size