xiro911 wrote:would that be the same or it is much better to use the manual backup instead of the automatic backup?
in most cases i would prefer the automatic backup, because you don't need to remember to take one.
Additionally mysqldump is a part of MariaDB and not a third party application like phpmyadmin. native scripts and programs are often more stable.
But in some cases it might be good to take a phpmyadmin export as well, especially if you plan to import it with phpmyadmin (for example on a shared webhost where you don't have the possibility to import database dump by script).
xiro911 wrote:are all the necessary files needed for automatic backup are intact?
What does that mean?