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This section describes how to make database backups and how to perform database maintenance.
To access your website maintenance panel select Maintenance from the secondary administrative menu located at the top right side in your web browser right above the main administrative menu.
Backup is copy of current and/or recent data that you may download to your hard drive (or other medium) for the purpose of having a second copy of an original source in case of damage to the original one.
Only data changed or added since the backup was made will be lost.
Your database backup will contain information about entries (comments, articles, categories, users), while all the settings and preferences will be exported into the configuration file. Back up your files regularly!
To create Database Backup select go to Maintenance -> Quick links -> Create backup
In the Dashboard section on the right, confirmation message that your database backup was created will appear. Reload your page and your database backup will appear in the list below the dashboard.
On the right hand side of your database name you may find restore, download and delete backup links.
Let's explain their functions in detail.
When you backup your database, it will be stored in /backup directory on your web server, but we recommend saving a copy of your database somewhere on your hard drive because even the most reliable computer/server could break down one day.
To download your database click on the download icon 
on the right
Dialog box should appear prompting you to save the file locally. Click Save button.
In the Save as dialog box, select location on your hard drive where you want to keep your backup copies. We recommend you to insert the date of creation in your database backup file name.
Click Save button and you are done!
Now that you've got backup of your database, let's learn how to restore your backup in case your database goes down.
The full backup file is just a set of SQL statements, so restoring it is very easy. Here's how you can restore your backed up database.
From the main menu select maintenance and then click on the restore backup icon 
.
The confirmation message will appear in the dashboard window to inform you that your database was restored.
Sometimes you may be sure that you will not need one or more of your backups so you will decide to remove it from the list.
All that you have to do in that situation is to click on the delete icon 
on the right and reload your web page. Your database backup copy will be removed from the list and from your web server.
Please be sure that you have made a local copy and that you want to delete certain backup because button will delete it permanently!
To help database clean up and get all the best possibilities to gather your information, you can perform the commands Optimize and Repair. You should perform this operation at least once a week.
Simply click Repair data and/or Optimize DB links from the quick links menu on the left and performed actions reports will be displayed in the dashboard window on the right.
Use this option to (re)create a list of related articles. Related articles are cached to improve speed and reduce load on the server, so use this option often if you frequently add new articles.