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Jim,
I got burned a copy times from installing upgrades, so I do a super-backup every time. If your provider allows ssh, you can make a shell script like this one - it tars all of the "critical" directories, does a mysql dump, and zips it up.
#!/bin/bash
# Create backups of /etc, /home, /usr/local, and...
backupdirs="forum gallery links images thumbshots"
mkdir /home/forum/www/backups/$(date +%Y%m%d)
for path in $backupdirs
do
echo "System backup on $path"
tar -czf /home/forum/www/backups/$(date +%Y%m%d)/$path.$(date +%Y%m%d).gz /home/forum/www/$path
sleep 2
done
mysqldump -C -umy_forum -ppassword my_forum >/home/forum/www/backups/$(date +%Y%m%d)/$(date +%Y%m%d).backup-file.sql
gzip /home/forum/www/backups/$(date +%Y%m%d)/$(date +%Y%m%d).backup-file.sql
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