Posts Tagged backup

As a Zen Cart Store Owner, one of your most important tasks is the regular backup of your store’s database and files. Your Zen Cart store consists of PHP and other files that makes your store work together with the template files and these are all hosted on your web server.  There is also the [...]

To perform a complete backup of your entire Zen Cart store: Log in to cPanel. Click on File Manager. Select the correct location of your Zen Cart install and click the Go button. Note:  Web hosts have their preferences in naming the folders that are your Internet folders. Look for a “www” or “public_html” or [...]

To perform a complete backup of your Zen Cart store files using FileZilla: Open FileZilla. In the Quickconnect section at the top of the screen, enter your Host, Username, Password and Port information and click on the Quickconnect button.  This information would have been sent to you when you first signed up for your web [...]

Prior to the installation of add-on modules, upgrading or moving your Zen Cart store, always remember to take a backup of the database.  Even if you are not making changes to your store, a backup should continue to be taken on a regular basis to ensure your backup includes up-to-date customer and order information in [...]