Backup Path?

alma townsend · July 11th, 2006, 01:15 PM

I just tried to run a backup and it did not work.
In ADMIN Global Options, my backup path is empty. What should be here. I entered a path to a backup folder I created but that didn't work either.
Thanks for your help. I need to be sure I can backup!!

Alma
www.thescraphabit.com/photopost

Sybaris · July 11th, 2006, 02:21 PM

best way to back up is through cpanel i would not trust it otherwise.

alma townsend · July 11th, 2006, 02:44 PM

do you mean not through PhotoPost Admin area?

Sybaris · July 11th, 2006, 02:45 PM

No through your sites backend i presume it has a backup facitlity, OR get your host to do a dump daily or something.

Chuck S · July 11th, 2006, 03:05 PM

You would place the server path to a directory you create on your server in there that you have set to 777.

As Sybaris states though the best backup feature you can use is your hosting control panel as you can backup everything databases and files that way.

alma townsend · July 11th, 2006, 04:53 PM

I did a backup zip through MySQL in my host control panel. Is this sufficient? It seemed like a small zip file, does this include all the photo files in photopost too?

Chuck S · July 11th, 2006, 05:05 PM

Hello

Just like our backup thing for mysql this only backs up the database. You should have a site backup utility to backup the files otherwise you would use ftp and download the entire gallery directory for safe keeping.

For a full backup you need files as well as database

alma townsend · July 11th, 2006, 05:26 PM

Great Thanks Chuck!