dderolph Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 I have phpBB forum installed; I installed it from the cPanel. What folders/files would I need to back up in order to have a backup of the forum messages on my hard drive so that I could discontinue a forum but possibly restore it later, with the previously posted messages? Do I just need to backup the folder I created for my bulletin board content - in my case, bboard - when I installed it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Besides the backup of the forum folder go to cpanel > backup and find Download a MySQL Database Backup and click on the database for your forum probably phpbb1 The database is where your forum posts are. Later you can upload the forum folder backup with an ftp program or file-manager to your site and then go back to cpanel > backup and find Restore a MySQL Database and browse to the database backup on your computer to upload it. and you should be back in business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dderolph Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 (edited) Thanks for that info. I have downloaded both the forum folder and the MySQL Database Backup. The forum folder was about 1.61MB but the MySQL Database Backup was only 20KB in size. Does that sound right for the MySQL Database Backup? Edit: I see the cPanel for Backup also has an option for Full Backups. I guess that could have been an alternative procedure, or could be done in conjunction with the above steps, although it would be redundant as far as backing up of the bulletin board content. Does Full Backups include all html files for web pages, etc.? In other words, does it include all files in a website, including the bulletin board installed from cPanel? Edited November 8, 2005 by dderolph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 The full backup is not the best for you, it is generated and stored on your site and takes up a lot of space and the techs would have to restore it for you. The home directory backup however is all your files in a compressed backup which you can later upload in the same place to restore. Database backups are compressed so that's is right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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