Centinel API is designed to work combination with Centinel centralized management system for off-site database backups and application log checks..
After installing the plugin, go to Settings > Centinel API Settings in your WordPress Admin zone.
From there, copy privateKey, encryptionKey and routePrefix to Centinel, and you're ready to schedule your application log checks and database backups..
Database Routes Enabled disable if you do not wish to send database dumps to Centinel.
Disable Time Based Authorization check this option in case of your server's and Centinel's datetime being out of sync.
If you're developing on Windows, you may want to set your Dump Binary Path to something like 'C Progra~1wampbinmysqlmysql5.7.18bin.
To change this, you can open up wp-config php and set the following options define define define.
Centinel API will try to zip and password protect database dumps before sending them to Centinel.
In case you're using PHP 7.2+, it will use PHP's ZipArchive class to zip and encrypt the database.
You can always opt out of backing up your database by disabling database backups Centinel, additionally, unchecking Database Routes Enabled in the settings..
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