Backing up your store data on Vareons

The merchant backup page lives at /dashboard/backup. Access is gated by your subscription (it appears on advanced paid tiers) and by your team permissions: backup.view to view, backup.create to create, and backup.edit to restore and delete.

Four buttons sit at the top of the page: Create Backup opens the creation dialog, Export All Data (ZIP) opens the export dialog, Restore from File opens the upload dialog, and Restore opens the restore-from-history dialog. Below the buttons a stats bar shows backup count, success rate and storage used versus your plan limit, then three tabs: Backups (the history), Settings, and Statistics (charts and database info).

The creation dialog offers four types: full for all selected categories, partial for chosen categories only, incremental for what changed since the last backup, and complete database (every category plus every collection). Twelve categories can be selected: products (with stock, movements, reservations, suppliers), orders (with appointments, bookings, invoices, bills, expenses), customers (with CRM customers, leads, segments), analytics, settings (shipping, loyalty, calendar, locations, notifications), components (the whole website design: layout, global components, static pages, page data), coupons (with bundles), staff (with attendance, leaves, performance, payroll), tracking, finance, content (reviews, QR codes, short links), and logs (off by default).

Before creation a warning appears and a literal typed confirmation is required: "I am sure I want to create a backup" in English and its Arabic equivalent. The snapshot is stored whole inside a Backup document in the database with an integrity checksum, a size, and a default 30-day retention.

The history in the Backups tab shows each backup with its status: pending, in progress, completed, failed (with the error message), restoring, or restored. Each row offers: JSON download (completed backups only), View Details (opens the backup page), delete the backup record, and refresh the list.

The backup detail page at /dashboard/backup/[backupId] shows the document count per category with expandable data previews and an icon per category — the right place to inspect a backup before restoring it.

Restoring from a saved backup runs from the top Restore button: pick a completed backup from the list, choose overwrite (deletes the selected categories' data then inserts the backup rows) or merge (inserts without deleting), pick the categories, then type the confirmation literally. Two restores never run together for the same store. When the components category is restored, the store caches are purged so the restored website shows immediately.

ZIP export downloads every collection as separate JSON files for offline archiving, migration or manual inspection, and creates no history record. Restore from File accepts a ZIP by drag-and-drop: the browser reads its contents, you pick the collections, type the confirmation, and it uploads to the server for restoration — handy when moving between two stores or recovering from an offline copy.