taznumber1 Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 I have a phpbb forum on my site, and I want to make sure that if my site does happen to get hit and the worm does it get I want to be able to restore it as quickly as possiable. My question is that if I create a backup script to run every couple of hours that create a tar.gz file of my forum directory, and I also do a mysql dump and tar.gz that dump file would the worm be able to get to the files if I place them outside the public_html folder part of my site. Lets say I create a directory at /home/username/backups inside my account. Because I did not want to waste all the bandwidth if it was not necessary to ftp those files offsite to my house thru ftp. Quote
annie Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 Do a manual backup of the forum files and transport it to another machine. Back it up to your own machine or a CD etc. But you only need to do that each time you've modded the files or upgraded the forum. The MySQL database is the only thing that changes when the forum is in use. Quote
taznumber1 Posted December 23, 2004 Author Posted December 23, 2004 Well I have the attachment mod so I have to backup the attachment directory so that is why I was thinking to just tar the whole messageboard directory. But I was trying to save bandwidth of not having to keep transfering the mysql files every couple of hours. Quote
annie Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 Hmmm, is there a way of backing up those files that have changed recently? Should be? Hopefully the attachments will be in one tidy folder? Quote
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