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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By : Gabriel Guarino
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By: Gabriel Guarino

Overview of this book

Do you have a good product to sell but need your start-up to sell it to your potential customers the right way? Were you unhappy with what Magento 1 had to offer and are looking forward to trying out what Magento 2 provides? If either of these questions ring a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by getting a general understanding of what Magento is, why and how you should use it, and whether it is possible and feasible to migrate from an old web store to Magento 2. We'll introduce you to the main e-commerce concepts and basic features and let you play with them, so you can get a taste of how catalog and content management works. Following on from that, we'll show you how to tune your store up. You will learn how to get web store offers up and running, how to offer various discounts in the catalog, how to let the customers reduce the total price in the shopping cart by combining different products, and how to generate coupon codes that customers can use. Finally, we'll get serious and turn your plaything into a real web store, teaching you how to run it for real.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Magento 2 Beginners Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Backup, restore, and database management


Creating a backup is essential to ensure we have a way to restore our Magento store in case something unexpected happens. Magento allows us to create a code base and database backup through the admin panel and the Magento 2 command-line tool.

In order to create a backup from the admin panel, you should go to the following section: SYSTEM | ToolsBackups

In that section, you will see a list of all the backups that you have created. In addition to that, you will be able to create three types of backup:

  • System Backup: Creates a code base and database backup with the ability to include or exclude the media folder

  • Database and Media Backup: Creates a database and media folder backup

  • Database Backup: Creates a database backup

For all these backup types, you have the ability to put the Magento store in maintenance mode, since the process takes a lot of server resources.

If you click on System Backup, the following window will be displayed:

When you proceed...