Ecommerce/CMS clients can back up their website database quickly and easily. It should be done at least weekly, or after you make changes to your site (changing page content, adding pages, adding new products, etc). All your changes are stored in your database and should your site ever crash or get hacked, it can easily be recovered with the backup you saved.

This process is not for WordPress clients.

Log into your site admin and find on the right column, under “Administration”, the link for “Backup”. Click on this link.

You’ll see a screen similar to this (click on image to view full size)-

Make sure all the tables in the list are selected. Leave “Show Data Only” UNchecked (do not check it).

Click on “Backup Database”.

You’ll see this screen -

Right click on the sql link and select “Save target as…” or “Save link as…” and choose a place on your computer that you can find it. Hit save, and you’re done.

Clicking “Delete Old Backup Logs” will remove old logs that were saved to your server/host.