How to backup magento to another installation

Question

How do i get all the info, products pics, settings, etc... from one magento install to another?

The backup feature it has don't seem to be that great.

Answer 1

Magento is like any other PHP web application in this case - you need to copy all of the files in the Magento directory, and copy the database.

The Magento backup tool simply creates a backup of the database, not the files.

Answer 2

Using SSH you can take the following steps to backup and move Magento to a new Site.

Make sure you are at the root of the magento when you run the followin commands

1. Backup the MySQL Database

   mysqldump -h DBHOST -u DBUSER -pDBPASS DBNAME > data.sql

   DBHOST - Database host name, usually just localhost
   DBUSER - Database user with access rights to the database 
   DBPASS - The password for the database user 
   DBNAME - The name of the database that Magento is using 
   

2. Backup the media directory with all product pics

   tar -cvf media.tar media/*

3. Backup the app directory for the default interface

   cd app/design/frontend/default/

   tar -cvf app.tar mytheme/

   Change mytheme with the name of your theme

4. Backup the skin directory for the default interface

   cd skin/frontend/default/

   tar -cvf skin.tar mytheme/

   Change mytheme with the name of your theme

5. Backup the config file localed here:

   app/etc/local.xml

6. Extract and overwrite all the files saved above to your new location

   To import the database use phpmyadmin or use this command line :

   mysql -h DBHOST -u DBUSER -pDBPASS DBNAME < data.sql

Answer 3

subversion or git and a DB dump makes it easy...the only thing you have to change is if you move domains the config_core_resource table needs to be updated to new url and the local.xml with new db login info if needed