Still on Drupal 7? Security support for Drupal 7 ended on 5 January 2025. Please visit our Drupal 7 End of Life resources page to review all of your options.Back up and restore your Drupal MySQL database, code, and files or migrate a site between environments. Backup and Migrate supports gzip, bzip and zip compression as well as automatic scheduled backups.
With Backup and Migrate you can dump some or all of your database tables to a file download or save to a file on the server or offsite, and to restore from an uploaded or previously saved database dump. You can choose which tables and what data to backup and cache data is excluded by default.
Drupal 10+ information
The 5.1.x branch is for Drupal 10+.
D10+ features
- Supported data sources: MySQL, file system
- Supported destinations: local file system
- Drush integration
- Multiple backup schedules
- Optional backup encryption using the defuse/php-encryption library.
For additional backup destinations, please use Backup Migrate Flysystem.
Security Notice
If you are not running on an Apache server, please see the module README file for advice on securing other servers. Test your configuration or consult an expert if you aren't sure if your server is secure.
Project information
- Project categories: Administration tools, Import and export
120,622 sites report using this module
- Created by ronan on , updated
Stable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
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