Backup & Restore

A backup you can actually restore from, on any hosting — including shared plans without shell access.

• Database dump in pure PHP: MySQL structure from SHOW CREATE TABLE, data in 500-row batches with keyset pagination, gzip on the fly. PostgreSQL uses pg_dump when available and falls back to a built-in dumper otherwise.
• File archive with sensible exclusions (cache, sessions, logs, .git, node_modules, the backup folder itself) and your own extra paths.
• Full copy in one file: site files plus database.sql.gz inside a single .zip.
• Schedule (daily or weekly) driven by a secret cron URL or the bundled console script; the plugin decides when a run is due, so calling it too often is harmless.
• Off-site storage in any S3-compatible bucket — AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, MinIO, Hetzner, Wasabi. Signature V4 on plain cURL, uploads stream from disk.
• Rotation keeps the newest N copies per type, locally and in the bucket.
• Restore from a stored copy or an uploaded file, with a safety copy taken first; .env, storage/ and the plugin itself are never overwritten.
• A dump only runs if it carries the Celena marker — a foreign SQL file is rejected before anything executes.
• Job log for every run and an e-mail report, so a failed nightly backup is never silent.
• Interface in English, Russian and Ukrainian.