Backing up your site

[ronan]

Hey,

 

I was just wondering how you go about backing up the info that is stored on your databases. Is that just a case of going onto myPHPadmin and doing a backup to an excel file?

 

Thanks

[♥yesudo]

You can do it in phpMyAdmin - or there is also a backup option in the admin area of your store under Tools.

 

This backs up the data - to backup the files(structure) for the site then use ftp to download locally.

[ronan]

Thanks for the reply.

 

I am trying to backup the database data from the oscommerce admin panel. It is giving me the following error when i try to do it:

 

Error: Backup directory does not exist. Please set this in configure.php.

 

How do i do this? I have opened up the configure.php file and did a search for 'backup' text but nothing came up. The permission on the catalog folder is set to read only at the moment, will that be a problem also?

 

Cheers

[Guest]

You probably need to create a directory in your admin fie structure called backups.

[muttsnuts]

For the database I use phpmyadmin and for the store I use DreamweaverMX2004 as it can download individual files or you entire site via ftp, tried smartftp but it has never yet successfully downloaded the entire store, it always always finds an excuse to terminate the transfer.

 

Big up yourself DMX2004

[Guest]

For the database I use phpmyadmin and for the store I use DreamweaverMX2004 as it can download individual files or you entire site via ftp, tried smartftp but it has never yet successfully downloaded the entire store, it always always finds an excuse to terminate the transfer.

 

Big up yourself DMX2004

Try a simple ftp machine like Filezilla. I've found it to be very reliable (and free)

[ronan]

Im using Dreamweaver to backup the site already. I was looking at the myphpadmin backup option but wasnt too sure what i was doing. I was going to export it as an SQL file but can i just use the default settings it uses i.e. 'structure' settings and 'data' settings?

[ronan]

I tried the backup but it just gave me what looks like a text file. Do i copy and paste that or something?

[♥yesudo]

A text file with extension .sql is usually produced which is your backup should you need it.