Backups and updates

Make a backup

1. Go to System → Settings → Backups.
2. Click Back up database now (1). This saves all pages, posts, settings, leads, orders and everything else in the database.
3. Click Back up uploads (ZIP) (2) to also save your pictures and files from the Media Library.
4. Under Your backups, click a backup's name to download it. Keep a copy off the server, for example on your computer or in cloud storage.

Turn on automatic backups

1. Tick Back up the database automatically once a week (3).
2. Choose how many to Keep the newest (older ones are deleted).
3. Click Save.

Restore a backup

The How to restore box on the Backups screen explains the steps. In short: in your hosting panel, open phpMyAdmin, choose your database, and Import the backup file. If you're not sure, ask your hosting support to restore it for you.

Update PageShift

1. Make a backup first (see above).
2. Go to System → Settings → Updates. Installed version (1) shows the version you have.
3. Under Install an update, click Choose File (2) and pick the update zip, for example pageshift-update-5.99.44.zip.
4. Type Your password (3) and click Install update (4).

The update takes about a minute. Visitors see a short "Updating" page meanwhile. PageShift saves the old version first and tests the site afterwards: if something isn't right, it rolls back by itself.

• Run health check tests that your home page, sign-in page and sitemap load.
• Versions you can roll back to lists the saved versions, in case you need to go back.
• Update history lists every update.