How to Backup Drupal
This page describes how to create a backup of your Drupal web site that includes everything you need to recover your site from scratch. Creating the backup takes just a minute or two, so it should be easy to do it once a week or, if you are ambitious, turn it into a script that runs automatically.
Since you installed Drupal, I assume you have shell access (ssh) to your web server, and you know how to find your database connection details. With that information in hand, you can create a zip file backup in just a few steps:
- Open a shell session on your web host.
- Create a SQL dump file
- Create a zip file that contains the SQL dump file and the web site files.
- Copy the zip file to safe place.
Since this process is the same as for any software installed at a web hosting service, you can get more details from how to backup your hosted site.