N.O.V.A. Backup Vault 0.5.2

N.O.V.A. Backup Vault is a complete local backup and protected recovery add-on for XenForo 2.3.

Main features

• Manual database, file or complete backups
• Scheduled backup profiles with configurable retention
• Private storage outside the public document root by default
• Immutable .novabackup.zip archives with a versioned manifest and SHA-256 verification
• Archive download, import and integrity verification
• Protected AdminCP restore with preflight checks and one-time recovery plans
• Mandatory safety backup and maintenance mode before restore
• Automatic rollback attempt if recovery fails after changes begin
• Emergency CLI dry-run, restore and rollback commands
• Preserves XenForo configuration, install lock and safe file permissions
• Modern responsive N.O.V.A. AdminCP dashboard
• Built-in English, German, Croatian, Turkish, Russian and French interface languages

Security and recovery safeguards

• Storage paths inside the forum root, symbolic links and traversal paths are rejected
• Completed backups are written atomically and kept with restrictive permissions
• Archive entries and payload hashes are validated before restore
• The current forum is backed up before any destructive recovery work begins
• Recovery runs as a protected non-cancellable XenForo background job

Important

This is a free public beta. Backups can contain database credentials, attachments and private forum content. Keep downloaded copies encrypted and access-controlled, and test recovery on an isolated staging forum before relying on it in production.

Version 0.5.2 was tested on XenForo 2.3.13. XenForo file health check completed successfully with 0 missing and 0 unexpected files.