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Originally Posted by Eidolon
From experience forums have their own 'export database' facility inbuilt, or atleast all I've used have. Failing that it's possible to export specific databases (not the same as "home directory backup" option). This is usually fairly quick and easy and ensures your forum database is backed up, I'm assuming your forum doesn't use DBM text files.
The 'structure' of the website hosting can be manually stored/backed up via FTP, I believe what 'flesso' was refering to. (The forum software I use has a nice option to tar up a copy of every file in the forum, making for an easy download of only a couple files.)
As a general rule of thumb, make a weekly database backup, and each time you modify the website hosting files keep a local backup. It seems like a rather boring task to regularly do but from experience it saves for a lot of headaches when something goes wrong. The good news is from recollection eUKHost do make/keep their own backups.
I personally don't think I've ever used the 'home directory backup', in part as I have a local copy of all files and also as it doesn't backup the all important databases. |
i did do weekly db backups, but i decided to backup actual files as i spent tons of hours modding the forum ( yer about 300 mods ) at the age of 17 im quite good at certain things, made 100s of
website hostings, modded tons of forums, made/setup my own linux/windows server 2003 server, good theme maker, good php/html scripter, done a bit of programing, have a full game server running my own game script (200 player server had to close 2days ago, bills
) etc
( my parents say i should be working for mi5 lmao! )
Did have my own freesms
website hosting, was going good 800 members, had to close tho (me = jobless bum ) :S
Yet cant find any decent jobs, my last job as i told mark was literately slaves wages, plus was nights
£3.20 an hour