I am fairly diligent when it comes to backing up my forum.

However, I have never tested those backups.

How does everyone go about doing it if they do test and if you don't, where do you store your backups? Is a one method safer than the next?

how i do it, is i use Ken Iovinos daily backup, it saves the files to your ftp. then when you want to download, you just upload the .sql file to the phpmyadmin. doesnt get easier then that really.

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I have automatic back cron script from Adminfusion which saves backup in to the root directory of my hosting account. Apart from that, once every day I optimize my database through phpmyadmin and down load the compress copy of it. I make sure there are at least two different copies of the database on the local system and at least 3 on the hosting account apart from the backup my host does.

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k, I can make a backup to the host through phpmyadmin..

So I guess I need to make sure I have a copy on my local computer as well.

Thanks for the replies

I use Ken's hack as well, makes a full backup once a day and saves it to the server, and it's emailed to me.

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can someone point to this hack please.

Thank you.

This is what I use: '+' - I don't know if it's Ken's but it does the smae thing.

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quick question.

I've installed it with no issues on my forum.

However, when I did a immediate save to backup, and checked my db, there is the saved backup along with an error file txt in my backup folder.

Why would that be? More importantly, what do I need to do to resolve this?

Thanks in advance.

Start to open the text file and read it . Might be standard procedure and there might be nothing in it. Hard to tell this way.

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