everbeta Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 i read some posts, someone suggest to backup before installing contributions, can anyone point me to the right direction on how to backup all the original setttings/data before installing contribution?? if the contribution fails or some issue arise, i can restore to the original working conditions. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
everbeta Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 ok, I think i find the method to back up the database, and if the database has been backup, all my website is backup? thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 No just the database is backed up. To back your site, load your favorite FTP program, and download everything to a folder. When making a backup of your database, I recommend saving it to a file rather than having it be saved on your server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GemRock Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 i read some posts, someone suggest to backup before installing contributions, can anyone point me to the right direction on how to backup all the original setttings/data before installing contribution... There are different ways of backing up your site, it all depends on what contribs you are going to install, ie, how many files/changes needed to be make. Generally speaking, you can backup your site's files/settings (the two configure.php files) using FTP. Just download all of them (assuming you dont have large number of images files with 100s KB each) to your local pc's harddrive. For the database, you can use either phpMyAdmin to export all the table's structure & data as sql scripts and save them as a file on your local pc, or you can go to Admin - tools - backup, to backup the database. To backup your whole site is good even you are not making any changes - just in case your host server clashes somehow so that you dont lose all your eggs. :) If you are going to just make some changes to a few files, then you could download these files using FTP to your local pc. Ken commercial support - unProtected channel, not to be confused with the forum with same name - open to everyone who need some professional help: either PM/email me, or go to my website (URL can be found in my profile). over 20 years of computer programming experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
everbeta Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 thank you for your kind help. when i FTP to my site, i see the following folder and files, do i just need to backup www folder? right? folders are as follows: public_ftp www etc .trash .fantasitcodata .htpasswds temp public_html mail .cpanel-datastore and the following files: .bash_profile .bashrc webalizer.conf and more.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Yea just the www folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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