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Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By : Bret Williams, Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds
Book Image

Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By: Bret Williams, Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds

Overview of this book

The long-awaited release of the world's most popular online solution, Magento 2, is now out with an all new interface and several enhancements. This book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. From planning your Magento installation through to advanced techniques designed to make your store as successful as possible, this book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store. Focusing on Magento's Community version, the book covers everything from creating and managing multiple stores to fine-tuning Magento for speed and performance. You’ll learn how to manage categories, products, design themes, extensions, and more.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Backing up your database


While we're on the topic of cron jobs, one system cron job you should consider is backing up your Magento database. As usual, this advice is based on hard-earned experience. In the course of working with Magento, and especially if you have clients who have permissions to add extensions and change configuration, you may need to restore the Magento database to a previous working state.

While most server hosting providers provide backup services, restoring just the Magento database can take a long time as server backups restore all the files on the server, not just your database. Some providers do provide specific database back-ups, but to be safe, it doesn't hurt to schedule your server to do your own back-ups. Additionally, learning how to quickly and easily back-up and restore your database will come in handy, since you should always do a back-up of your database before installing new extensions or significantly changing configurations.

The built-in back-up

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