 Announcement: Importance Of Regular Site Backups ! |
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 Jun 5 2006, 05:19 PM
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Binary Geek  Group: Members Posts: 444 Joined: 4-November 05 From: The Digital Arena Member No.: 9,440  |
A little backup help for WordPress (WP) running site owners. The Only way till now is to back up WP via MySQL manual backup or by plug-ins. In either case i am still not able to find a complete backup solution, where with one click i can back up the WP DB and also the complete folder where WP is installed (root). Well here's what i've found, but if anyone has more useful plugins then please do share with us.
Backing up your DB (WordPress Site) Restoring ur DB (WordPress Site) DB Admin Tools (WP's Plugin Database).. WordPress Backup Shell Script On-Click Backup (Worth a Try) Hope this helps  Regards Dhanesh. This post has been edited by dhanesh: Jun 5 2006, 05:21 PM |
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Jun 5 2006, 08:03 PM
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Member - Active Contributor  Group: Banned Posts: 83 Joined: 25-May 06 Member No.: 13,659 |
So has anyone tried the cPanel Single Click Backup Tool yet? It looks like a definite time-saver, and the log it sent to my e-mail after backing up my Website looked quite thorough. But I thought it better to ask you guys, in case you have other opinions about it
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Jun 6 2006, 11:07 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 22-May 06 From: India Member No.: 13,593 |
Hey, M^E, please explain to me how exactly the "Backup Site" function in Cpanel works. Cause my site is around 65MB now, and I can't afford to download the whole thing again and again! By the way, if anyone's using phpBB2 forum out there, then there is an option for "Backup MySQL Database" and "Recover MySQL Database" in the Administration Panel. That's pretty useful, as you can download the GZipped DB which turns out to be very small in size! Unless you use other DBs that is! Hope m^e reads this soon, I've worked real hard to build my site, and its not even completely up yet! |
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Jun 6 2006, 11:25 AM
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PsYcheDeLiC dR3aMeR  Group: Admin Posts: 2,242 Joined: 29-January 05 From: Nakorn Chaisri, Thailand Member No.: 2,411 myCENTs:84.36 |
QUOTE(Omkar™ @ Jun 6 2006, 06:07 PM)  Hey, M^E, please explain to me how exactly the "Backup Site" function in Cpanel works. Cause my site is around 65MB now, and I can't afford to download the whole thing again and again! By the way, if anyone's using phpBB2 forum out there, then there is an option for "Backup MySQL Database" and "Recover MySQL Database" in the Administration Panel. That's pretty useful, as you can download the GZipped DB which turns out to be very small in size! Unless you use other DBs that is! Hope m^e reads this soon, I've worked real hard to build my site, and its not even completely up yet! You can find this option under Site Management Tools in cPanel - the first icon in the last row. It's simply named Backup and when you click it, it gives you an option of backing up your site in your home folder or on a remote FTP server. Usually you'd choose your home folder. What it does is, grab every single file in your site as well as you MySQL and PostGRE-SQL databases and packs all those files in a tar archive. Final step is gzipping this archive. Once done, you'll find a file named like backup-[date].tar.gz. Upon successful backup you should receive a mail somewhat on these lines: QUOTE pkgacct started. pkgacct version 4.1 - running with uid 0 using time::hires for speedups Copying Reseller Config...Done Copying SSL Certificates, CSRS, and Keys...Done Copying Mail files....Done Copying frontpage files....Done Copying proftpd file....Done Copying www logs............. ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... Done Grabbing mysql dbs............ ......... Done Grabbing mysql privs...Done Grabbing PostgreSQL databases............ Done Grabbing PostgreSQL privileges...Done Copying mailman lists....Done Copying mailman archives....Done Copying homedir....Done Copying cpuser file.......Done Copying crontab file.......Done Copying quota info.......Done Storing Subdomains.... Done Storing Parked Domains.... Done Storing Addon Domains.... Done Copying password.......Done Copying shell.......Done pkgacctfile is: /home/backup-6.6.2006_11-17-14_SITENAME.tar.gz Creating Archive ....Done md5sum is: cd8c232192c344a3743e834dd4913c95 What you stated about backing up MySQL DB is done in this step too - except there you're backing up only your DBs - and this one works on every kind of file and data of your site. Regards, m^e |
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Jun 6 2006, 09:22 PM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,890 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 myCENTs:37.19 |
QUOTE(abhiram @ Jun 5 2006, 08:35 AM) Hey, I've got a problem! My campus server doesn't allow me to connect to port 2083 anymore. Does anyone know of a method to bypass this thing or any other way to backup data? I've tried tunneling using your-freedom but it isn't working. Try using the standard HTTP way to log in using port 2082. If not, use a proxy server. xboxrulz |
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Jun 7 2006, 12:36 PM
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Wheeeeeeee! Group: Members Posts: 245 Joined: 19-October 05 From: DG, Belgium Member No.: 9,200 |
Will you set up the server-side back ups again in near future? It kind of was part of the Astahost professionality and security feeling =)
I noticed that I can't unzip the tar.gz file I downloaded on Mac OS X. Someone having similar problems? Greetings, Ruben |
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Jun 7 2006, 12:50 PM
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Binary Geek Group: Members Posts: 444 Joined: 4-November 05 From: The Digital Arena Member No.: 9,440 |
QUOTE(abhiram @ Jun 5 2006, 04:35 PM) Hey, I've got a problem! My campus server doesn't allow me to connect to port 2083 anymore. Does anyone know of a method to bypass this thing or any other way to backup data? I've tried tunneling using your-freedom but it isn't working. Hehe .. try >>THIS<< or >>THIS<< only difference between the 2 is the "s" .. http:// and https:// ... hope this helps. Its a anoy proxy browser .. err .. i mostly use it cause USEFUL sites are blocked in my country  .. Regards Dhanesh. |
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Jun 10 2006, 07:45 PM
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Bursting with vegany goodness! Group: Members Posts: 342 Joined: 8-April 05 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 3,753 myCENTs:10.76 |
Once you've downloaded the complete backup file, how would you restore your site from it?
Do you just upload it using the "Restore a Home Backup" tool on the homepage, and does that restore all your databases and everything completely, or will you have do do anything else? |
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Jun 22 2006, 04:54 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 22-June 06 Member No.: 14,067 |
It's great that we now know how to do this and hopefully there will not be any more losses.
Thanks me for this now-useful option that we can use. xD |
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