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How often do you back-up?
01-11-2006, 10:56 PM
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Title: Just keeping it real
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,856 Location: Kent, WA     
| How often do you back-up? I am curious how often do you guys do back-ups? I do a back up about once a month. My host also does a back-up nightly. (Yes I have confirmed this). Is once a month enough or?  | ||||
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01-11-2006, 11:00 PM
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Title: Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | Once a month is WAY too long for forums. Just imagine. If your forums crashed today and you had to revert back to your forums a month ago, imagine all of the data you would lose. We backup our database here at AdminFusion every 6 hours. The files are backed up daily by the host, but I also back them up from time to time, usually once every other week or so. This isnt as important for us, as the files at AdminFusion do not change drastically.
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01-12-2006, 12:29 AM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 481 
| I backup my forums every once in a while. My host does do backups but he doesn't do them periodically just whenever he feels the need. I only have 3 backups and we have been up roughly over a month
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01-12-2006, 12:42 AM
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Title: I'm a MALE =\
Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,143 Location: Michigan
| EVER NIGHT... lol Data:after loosing all my members due to not making backups and not good backups i make them ever night.... even if i am gone i have some do it for me... Files: once a month, if it needs it for now i do it, just in case. in for double protection, i make cd copys of it... a little over board ? lol | ||||
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01-12-2006, 01:24 AM
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| My forums are backed up every morning at 5:00am. I used to do this manually but I had someone help me automate it. Now I just need to spend some time and test the backups. 
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01-12-2006, 09:42 AM
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| Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Malaga, Spain | For those talking about testing your backups, depending on how your backups are done, for Mysql it is possiable to also write a script that will drop a secondary database, and then restore the backup from your main db into that secondary db, and then all you have to do is take a look at your secondary forums, and make sure that its restored it correctly. If someone wants help in setting that up, let me know and i will try an write a tutorial on backuping up mysql and testing it. | ||||
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01-13-2006, 08:34 AM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 450 | I never backed up my forum, yet. It's not going very well anyway. I back up my files everytime I change something. I have the habbit of writing scripts on my server, so if I were to loose the files, I would have nothing but a blank txt file to start over with. After loosing 50 sites on a host, and then finding another host to rebuild everything I lost and the same thing happened again, I start backing up files as much as I can. As for my vBulletin forum, I just got it and don't really know how to back anything up. Is it part of the forum, or would I be using phpMyAdmin or cPanel to do it? | ||||
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01-13-2006, 08:55 AM
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Title: Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | I would recommend looking into this thread for backing up your forums. It says it is for IPB, but it will work with any software. It's what we do here at AF. | ||||
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01-13-2006, 09:02 AM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 450 | That looks good, but I am on a shared server where I don't get shell access. | ||||
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