Backing up your database is critical to long term safety and reliability of your Joomla! site. Should the database become corrupted or get damaged, having a copy to restore is vital.
In this recipe we will "export" or "backup" our database.
Exporting is the process of making a copy and saving it locally on your desktop or other means of storage.
You will need your username and password for accessing your database in your control panel. Depending on your hosting you may need your username and password for the database.
Log in to your hosting and navigate to your cPanel®.
Locate your phpMyAdmin.
Click the phpMyAdmin button to open. You will see a screen like the following:
In our example, we're clicking the database _15. You will need to choose your database. The next screenshot will show a screen that should be similar to yours.
This is a view of all the rows and tables in our database. Your screen will scroll...