The majority of options to control Backup Client are located on this page. As with all settings pages you can easily return to the default state by pressing the "Reset to defaults" button.
General options:
This sets the path to where your backups will be saved. By default it is set to a directory named "backup_client" within your Drupal files directory. If you would like to save your files outside of your Drupal install you can use a path like this: ../backup_client. If this path is not web accessible then you'll enjoy more security with your backups. But, you will not be able to easily download them via a web browser.
If your PHP is complied with the zlib extension then Backup Client can gzip your files and this option will be available to you. Files that are gzip’ed will have the extension .gz added.
This may create errors in some hosting environments. If your are having problems from file permissions try changing this setting. For more information about security please view the Security help page.
The title of your website (within the backed up database file) will have the backup date appended to it. If you restore from a database backup - this will allow you to verify which backup you restored from.
Configures the number of rows for the tables on the Website and Database backup pages.
Website backup options:
Please be careful when changing the token patterns. You will want to ensure that each file has a unique name. This can be accomplished by adding date info, random characters, and/or sequential numbers. Additionally, if you do not sufficiently randomize your backup filenames, and your files are web accessible (ie. in the files directory), a malicious person could guess the name and download your website backup.
Why is this a problem? Within your website backup is your settings.php file and within this are the username and password to your database. For more information about security please view the Security help page.
Usually you will want only the most recent database backup(s) included in your tar file. But, to be conservative this option is turned off by default.
Often you will have additional files and/or directories you do not want to include in your backups. You can enter one pattern per line as Drupal paths to exclude files and directories from being included in the website backup tar file. The '*' character is a wildcard. Example: to exclude all the files in the `files` directory use files/*
Datbase backup options:
Please be careful when changing the token patterns. You will want to ensure that each file has a unique name. This can be accomplished by adding date info, random characters, and/or sequential numbers. Additionally, if you do not sufficiently randomize your backup filenames, and your files are web accessible (ie. in the files directory), a malicious person could guess the name and download your database backup.
If you have multiple databases defined in your settings.php file - Backup Client will create a backup for each database. If you do not select this configuration only the default database will be backed up.
You can optionally include or exclude this statement within the database backup.
You can optionally include or exclude this statement within the database backup.
This configuration can help reduce the size of your databases backups by not backing up the data from selected tables.
When backing up the default database (ie. Drupal's database) there are two methods for determining what tables to backup.