MagePlace Blog Magento Backup 2.0.0 Release On World Backup Day

World Backup Day was announced in the March of 2012 by the initiative of reddit users. The chosen date is not accidental: in the electronic world there were cases of information loss exactly on April the 1st - there is even a group of viruses that activates exactly on the 1st April and results in system failure and information loss. To avoid such poor consequences Reddit enthusiasts established the World Backup Day movement and took upon themselves the responsibility to inform society about the importance of regular backup of not only work and business data but of personal content - photos, video, audio files as well.2.0.0 Magento Backup version!The main breakthrough of this version is the Multistep backup. The implemented functionality allows dividing the backup process into steps. From now on, it's not necessary to split big files into profiles: you just need to enable the multistep option and backup process will be divided into periods - if necessary you can indicate the duration of each step. This option will be especially useful for those users who struggle with limited time for script execution indicated in the server settings. To get round this limitation it will be enough to set the duration time for one step less than the time allowed on the server for script execution. The option 'Time based multistep' allows not to split files into parts while uploading them to the cloud servers, which means that files can be now uploaded to the cloud server as a whole. This option has one exception - users won't be able to use the cloud application "Box", as it doesn't support the required functionality for this option. All the rest cloud applications support the time limited upload.Multistep option can be enabled separately for manual and cron backups. This way of implementation was chosen to ensure the ability to disable multistep for cron. The multistep backup process lasts a little longer than without it which is caused by server settings: some servers allocate more time and resources for tasks executed by cron.In the 2.0.0 version of Magento Backup we also changed the process of manual backup. Now it has a more user-friendly interface, the ability of visual control of the backup process and process cancellation, etc.Another useful feature in this version is the ability to set the suffix of backup files. An effective option in case when all backup files from different profiles are stored in one folder on cloud server - use of suffixes allows marking out what file belongs to which profile. We optimized the code and as a result - decreased the time of many code parts execution.So we did everything possible to simplify your life by making our Magento Backup more productive, faster and easy to use. All you have to do is update the Backup version you have to the 2.0.0 and celebrate the World Backup Day with us in the most appropriate for it way - by backing up your e-Commerce website! And for those who still don't have our Backup extension we have a special offer: a possibility to buy the updated extension with a 15% discount using our coupon code 'WBD2.0.0'! **This offer is valid till April the 1st. Discount is not applicable to custom development.