Backup/Restore seems largely non-functional

[Palamedes]

Create two installs of Abante Cart.  One will be your development or staging install, and one will be the production install.

Add a bunch of stuff to the develop install; categories, merchants, products, images etc..

Back up that "developer" install and restore it to the other "production" fresh install.  This should (and needs to) 100% work allowing you to migrate test on one machine and update to another production install.  It doesn't.

No media is backed up at all and should be -- copy/pasting the images directory structure over doesn't work either or rather only partially works.
Categories and Merchant (brand) listings on the page don't update likely due to some template caching issue.
Etc..

This area needs a lot of love.

[abantecart]

I agree with you. Backup and restore should work clean.

We will check and improve this ASAP.

[Palamedes]

It looks like if you delete everything out of system/cache after a restore that fixes a bunch of issues.

Not sure about media though.. That one might be more tricky..   I copied the images from one install to the mirror install and half the images still don't work which I find.. strange..

[Basara]

It looks like if you delete everything out of system/cache after a restore that fixes a bunch of issues.

Not sure about media though.. That one might be more tricky..   I copied the images from one install to the mirror install and half the images still don't work which I find.. strange..

Did You try to clear AbanteCart cache in admin front?
http://www.abantecart.com/ecommerce-documentation/57-user-manual/admin-user-manual/system/cache

I can confirm only issue with images files, we will fix it. Others like categories/products/manufacturers/layouts are successfully restored (if clear abantecart cache after import)

[Nimitz1061]

This begs the question of why the cache is not cleared automatically during the import process.  Perhaps this is a change which should be considered...

David

[abolabo]

we added cache cleaning in v1.0.3.
thank you

[Nimitz1061]

Excellent!

David