OScommerce Backup

[Guest]

Hello All,

 

I was working on my store this morning and had just uploaded a bunch of products. I went to look at my work live and ALL OF MY 400 SOME PRODUCTS GONE!!!!!!!! I know, I know, I cried like a little girl. So i thought to myself "It's alright, just go restore the backup, I had made it about a week ago." Well, I had FTP'd the entire store onto my computer and I went to go reput up the store. And of course, just my luck, it didn't work. Now, is it me, or if you save all the files from OScommerce and reload it should be exactly the same as it was when you saved it. Or I am just nuts? Because if I am, just let me know.

 

So then I find the backup tool in admin. Great, wish I would have known about that. So I made a backup. Luckly I was able to reload the store and use my old stylesheet and some of my old catagories. So I made a backup and created a new store. I reloaded the backup from the first site expecting to find 2 identical stores. To my surprise this was not the case.

 

All I want to do is make an EXACT copy of my store. So if it freaks out again and I lose all my products I will have SOMETHING to fall back on. So what should I do? Obviously the OScommerce backup tool does not save my images. I want to save it ALL! HELP ME PLEASE

 

I am kind of an idiot when it comes to PHP terms, so please use words I can understand!

 

Thanks,

 

Krashed in Keewanasaw

[241]

The backup tool is only for the database backup and not the files.

 

You should use the tool to backup the database and then use ftp to download the entire site to your computer.

[ozcsys]

Hello All,

 

I was working on my store this morning and had just uploaded a bunch of products. I went to look at my work live and ALL OF MY 400 SOME F'ING PRODUCTS GONE!!!!!!!! I know, I know, I cried like a little girl. So i thought to myself "It's alright, just go restore the backup, I had made it about a week ago." Well, I had FTP'd the entire store onto my computer and I went to go reput up the store. And of course, just my luck, it didn't work. Now, is it me, or if you save all the files from OScommerce and reload it should be exactly the same as it was when you saved it. Or I am just nuts? Because if I am, just let me know.

 

So then I find the backup tool in admin. Great, wish I would have known about that. So I made a backup. Luckly I was able to reload the store and use my old stylesheet and some of my old catagories. So I made a backup and created a new store. I reloaded the backup from the first site expecting to find 2 identical stores. To my surprise this was not the case.

 

All I want to do is make an EXACT copy of my store. So if it freaks out again and I lose all my products I will have SOMETHING to fall back on. So what should I do? Obviously the OScommerce backup tool does not save my images. I want to save it ALL! HELP ME PLEASE

 

I am kind of an idiot when it comes to PHP terms, so please use words I can understand!

 

Thanks,

 

Krashed in Keewanasaw

 

 

 

The backup in the admin saves your database info. This would include all your customer and product info. When you add products to your store it saves the info in the database but does not make any changes to your files.

 

It does not save your files and any changes that have been made to them.

 

To completely backup your store you must do a backup in the admin(database) and then ftp all your files to your local computer.

 

 

When changing files ftp the backups to your local computer

 

When adding products do the backup in your admin.

[Guest]

So how come when I re-upload my FTP backup of the files it still doesn't work?

[ozcsys]

So how come when I re-upload my FTP backup of the files it still doesn't work?

 

 

Your files do not contain any of your product info. Only a backup that you did before you lost your product info would do you any good.

[Guest]

Okay... so just tell me this then, I want to save some of my product, all I have is an FTP backup, is there any possible way to save some of the product or anything?

[ozcsys]

Okay... so just tell me this then, I want to save some of my product, all I have is an FTP backup, is there any possible way to save some of the product or anything?

 

 

All the product information is found in the database. If you do not have a database backup with the product info in it then you are out of luck.

[Guest]

Thank you for the sad but helpful news... I am going to go cry myself to sleep now... I hope you have a better day than mine...