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Katra

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Re: Full backups
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2009, 10:04:28 PM »
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.

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Re: Full backups
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2009, 01:02:25 PM »
What is the difference between the Site Saver Tool & The GC Solutions Backup Utility V2.0?

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Re: Full backups
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2009, 01:19:23 PM »
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.

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Re: Full backups
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2010, 05:19:58 AM »
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 ;)

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Re: Full backups
« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2010, 08:06:28 AM »
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.

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Re: Full backups
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2010, 02:17:30 PM »
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.

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