Hi, folks ...

I'm fumbling my way through learning to set up and manage ZenCart and
am in a bit of an ignoramus's quandary here. I'm reading the
PHPmyAdimin docs and trying to find out for future emergencies and to
enhance my knowledge, how to backup and restore the database.

I got a little way into it and the documentation didn't say what to
do at this point, or I missed it. I have clicked on the button that
says "Backup" and am at a page of plain text that looks like the
source for the database.

It's very long but heres the start of it:
======================== -- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
-- version 2.10.1
-- http://www.phpmyadmin.net
--
-- Host: localhost
-- Generation Time: Sep 01, 2008 at 03:28 PM
-- Server version: 5.0.67
-- PHP Version: 5.2.6

SET SQL_MODE="NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";

--
-- Database: `theperfectstick_com_-_zencart`
--

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `address_book`
--

CREATE TABLE `address_book` (
`address_book_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`customers_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',

.... etc.

=========================== That is where I stopped. It didn't say what to do with it. It just
sat there on my screen. No "save to disk" button or anything of the
sort, unless I just couldn't find it. Before I screw something up
irredeemably, can one of you geniuses tell me what I do now? Do I
copy this file and save it locally, and then when I want to restore
it, click on the restore button and navigate to the file on my hard
drive, or what?

I want to try some other things, but want to have the database
actually saved so I can restore it so that when I get to the unknown
but inevitable place where I mess up, I can restore it and be back in
business.

Sorry to be a nuisance, but I am reading the documentation, and I
guess I am just to inexperienced to understand it. The control panel
I used on another host allowed me to just backup the database and
restore it without knowing how to do anything but click on buttons.
It didn't expect me to know how it was done, I guess. :-)

Best regards,

Doug


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