Full backups

[Katra]

That is the back up thats the same as going into the Admin Panel of the forum. I have a few friends that have tried that facility through Admin Panel  before and when their was a problem with their forums they restored the backup and the whole forum was messed up.

[dumblonde]

What is the difference between the Site Saver Tool & The GC Solutions Backup Utility V2.0?

[G.C. Admin]

What is the difference between the Site Saver Tool & The GC Solutions Backup Utility V2.0?

V2 is a bit harder to use. V1 is the easy one.

Frank

[Nax]

OK being a lazy type, Frank can I create (with help) a cron job do a mysqldump of my smf forum once a week to a folder within my account.  I do do an export regularly using phpmyadmin and I'm ok doing that (the DB is fairly small), it's just a question of remembering to do it. Am I being too careful here? Are you backing up the server in such a way that if my DB goes belly up for some reason (I always do a backup before any changes to the forum) you can restore that DB to a previous point in time.  Always being cautious

[Nax]

OK I've found a nice little pgp app that will do a mysqldump of my db, gzip it and email it to me.  Tried that as a cron job and it works fine so I'm a happy bunny.

[G.C. Admin]

OK being a lazy type, Frank can I create (with help) a cron job do a mysqldump of my smf forum once a week to a folder within my account.  I do do an export regularly using phpmyadmin and I'm ok doing that (the DB is fairly small), it's just a question of remembering to do it. Am I being too careful here? Are you backing up the server in such a way that if my DB goes belly up for some reason (I always do a backup before any changes to the forum) you can restore that DB to a previous point in time.  Always being cautious

sorry missed this post.

All backups include databases.

Frank