Aylard.ca

The need to backup and restore Drupal websites was my focus over the past couple of days.
A proper site backup must target the MySQL database, the /sites/default directory and the /sites/all/themes directory.

In the past I have used Backup and Migrate version 6.x-1.2 to handle the backup function for the database and Backup Files version 6.x-1.1 to backup the appropriate files. Although the Backup and Migrate module worked well, the Backup Files module was causing problems and was lacking some key functionality such as a scheduling.

The solution that I ended up adopting was using Backup and Migrate version 6.x-2.2 and Backup and Migrate Files version 6.x-1.x-dev.

I was very apprehensive about using a development version of a module for such a critical function.  The risks of using this relatively untested module can be offset by monitoring the backup functions until an stable version is released.