How do you guys backup photos ?

[Yellowspurs]

Hello everyone, I've searched the forum but haven't find anything on photos backup.

I do backup by using Cute Pro FTP client but it won't completely download a folder that has several thousands of photos. I was able to download completely a folder that contain 1000 photos but not the folder that contain 29,000 photos.

My gallery show there are 29,000 photo on a particular category but Cute Pro will only downloaded about 1990 photos then stop... the status say: "transfer complete" but it's not. Anyone with this problem ? Is it a FTP client problem ?

Is there a better way to do backup ?

I tried to use the backup option in the Admin panel but it has the following error:

Command being used to execute dumps (specific tables are executed individually):

/usr/bin/mysqldump --opt -h localhost -uabc_xyz -pxxxx cbc_abc

Results:

Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: Stat failed for /home/sites/photopost/backups/photos.sql (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /home/ganoico/public_html/photopost/adm-misc.php on line 1937
Warning: photos.sql is 0 bytes or did not get created.

You should double-check your .sql files to be sure the backup completed successfully.

What do I need to do to get it working properly ? When work, is this the way everyone use to back up their photos ?

[Chuck S]

http://support.discusware.com/manual...bkupmgr06.html

Here are some basic commands to help understand the workings of gzip on your server if you have ssh.

If you get a problem using the photopost backup database utility that tells me your backup path is incorrect and not set to 777 in global options in admin. personally I use a cron database backup utility that takes daily weekly monthly backups of my databases and if I had to backup manually I would use phpmyadmin not the photopost utility.

[Yellowspurs]

Hi Chuck,
I use phpMyadmin to back up the database, that's ok because they are text.

My problem is backing up the photo in the "Data" directory of the photopost. Can you use ssh to back up photos in this directory ?

If so, what is the command that I must use once I'm connected to the server through ssh ?

[Chuck S]

tar -zcpf /var/www/backups/photopost.tar.gz /var/www/html/gallery

that will backup all your photopost files