Your Drupal site's database contains the content, configuration, and log information about the site. When you create a site in Multi-Experience Operations, you have several environments you can use to develop and manage your site, with each environment having its own database allowing your site to have several databases associated with it, depending on which environment you are working in.

The Databases page in Multi-Experience Operations displays the date and time of the last created backup for each database in each environment. You can also create on-demand backups and view, download, restore, and delete backups. For more information, see Backing up your application. 

Multi-Experience Operations supports the following types of database backups:

• Automated database backups
• On-demand database backups

Automated database backups¶

Daily backups from the last three days are always available in the Cloud Platform user interface and are listed as Automatic (Daily) on the Databases page. These daily backups are required and cannot be disabled. However, you can take on-demand backups at any time, for example, for critical stages of development. You must periodically check to ensure that backups complete as expected and test if you can restore websites from a backup copy.

On-demand database backups¶

You can take on-demand backups of any database. To do so:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. Go to Codebases and select a codebase.
3. Click Sites and select a site.

4. Click Databases.

   
5. To take databases backups, do one of the following:
   • Select one or more databases and click Backup.
   • For a specific database, click Actions > Backup.
   • Click the link of a database name for which you want to take backup and click Backup.
     The system displays a confirmation page.
6. Click Back up.
   The backup process may take a few minutes.
7. To view the backup you created, select the databases for which you took the backup earlier.

Downloading latest backup of a database¶

To download the latest backup of a database:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. Go to Codebases and select a codebase.
3. Click Sites and select a site.
4. Click Databases.
5. Locate the database for which you want to download the latest backup and click Actions > Download latest backup.
6. In the confirmation box, click Download.

Restoring database backups¶

To restore database backups:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. Go to Codebases and select a codebase.
3. Click Sites and select a site.
4. Click Databases and select a specific database for which you want to restore a backup.
5. Locate the backup and click Actions > Restore.
6. In the confirmation box, click Restore.

Deleting database backups¶

To delete database backups:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. Go to Codebases and select a codebase.
3. Click Sites and select a site.
4. Click Databases and select a specific database for which you want to restore a backup.
5. Locate the backup and click Actions > Remove.
6. In the confirmation box, enter CONFIRM and click Confirm.