Making a copy of your store

We have taken a number of steps to protect our PrestaShop, but what if it all goes wrong anyway? It is still possible, although much less likely, that you will get hacked. It is also possible that we might accidentally spoil our own PrestaShop. If you promise not to tell anyone else, I will give you an example of a self-inflicted disaster I had.

While working on this chapter, I was playing with the Permissions features. I deleted a few tabs and then with a single inadvertent click I deleted the Employees tab! The permissions page went blank and there was no way to restore all the tabs that I had deleted. I can't put in print what I said when I realized my mistake.

But I had a copy and the page was up and running again in 10 minutes.

A lesson to be taken from this incident is to create a new profile and user for you. Call it Junior admin, and then if you do something dumb like I did, you can log in as the administrator and put it right.

So our objective for this section...