LemonStand Documentation

Configuring and using the backup system

To configure the backup system please click the Backup or Restore submenu in the System menu. Click the Configure backup system button. Enter an absolute path to a directory where you want LemonStand to create and keep backup archives. On Unix based systems absolute paths should begin with a slash, for example: /home/user/backups. It is highly recommended that you create the backup directory outside the LemonStand directory and out of any Web accessible directories. 

Select the backup interval and a number of archives to keep.

If you need, you can enable email notifications. In this case LemonStand will notify system administrators in case of the backup faults.

Creating an archive manually

To create a system archive manually, please click the Create archive button on the System/Backup or Restore page. Enter a comment (optionally) and click the Create button. When LemonStand finish creating the archive, the browser will be redirected back to the archive list.

Downloading an archive file

You can download a file of previously created archive. To download a file, please click on any archive in the archive list and then click on the Archive file link.

Restoring a system from archive

To restore a file from archive, click an archive in the archive list and then click the Restore data button.

Important! Please remember that this operation will update all data in the database, including user accounts and sales information.

Restoring the system from a file

You can restore the system from an archive file, previously downloaded from LemonStand. To restore the system from a file, please click the Restore data from file button. Select an archive file and click the Restore data button.

Important! Please remember that this operation will update all data in the database, including user accounts and sales information.

Scheduling automatic backup

You can use cron jobs to create backup archives automatically. Your LemonStand installation has a special URL which you can invoke from a command line with the CURL or wget command. The URL depends on your Administration Area URL. For example, of you use the http://your-host.com/admin URL to access the Administration Area, the backup URL is http://your-host.com/admin/system/backup/cron/

The backup script outputs the "Success" word in case of success.

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