Backup and Migrate

Version reviewed: 6.x 2.2

The database of your website contains practically all the content of the site. Losing that is losing whatever was contributed. Folders containing the drupal-modules can be downloaded again from drupal.org, userlists, productinformation, frontpages, taxonomy, and whatever else that is preserved in the database can't. So making copies of (the content in) the database is essential.

The first time I migrated my database I used PhpMyAdmin, a tool that is readily available by my provider, and that was also installed on my computer when I downloaded WampServer. PhpMyAdmin is probably the best program in the world to look deeper into a MySql-database, but not very easy to work with when exporting or importing databases. I like to know what I'm doing, it took me a while to figure out what buttons I had to push to migrate my database.

The excellent Backup and Migrate-module (B&M) helps me now. It has two important functions for me: it makes a copy of the content in my database every so often (automatically) and I use it to export a file that I can import later again. So, ideal for migrating a database.

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