Backup General premises In this section you can find a general guide to perform vtenext backups. The backup procedure was performed with vtenext 19ce. The guide is also valid for the other versions of vtenext. Windows Go to the root folder of vtenext (eg. C:\vtenext19ce\htdocs) and create new zip archive.   Then open SQLyog or phpMyAdmin and dump the database. If you use SQLyog follow these step: Open SQLyog and create new connection Go to the root folder of vtenext and open the config.inc.php file Reopen SQLyog, compile the connection form and save the connection Save the database dump Done! Linux Go to the root folder of vtenext (eg. /var/www/html/vtenext19ce) and create new archive. cd /var/www/html tar cvzf backups/vte1907_1817_20191126.tgz vtenext19ce Replace vtenext19ce with your folder name You can rename the backup vte1907_1817_20191126.tgz as you want Then dump the database. mysqldump -u root -p  vte1907_1817 --single-transaction --quick --routines --triggers --events | gzip -7 > backups/vte1907_1817_20191126.sql.gz Replace vte1907_1817 with your database name You can rename the backup vte1907_1817_20191126.sql.gz as you want