Backing up my forum.

[robbieswan]

Hi there, is there a way I can backup the forum on a regular basis easily, do I go to php admin and back up the databases?

 

[Amaury]

#1 The file could be corrupt.
#2 There is difference between MB and MiB. Isn't that figure from the server in MiB?

Nope, it says MB.

 

[TPerry]

Hehehehe... my most recent backups (from one server) sat at 32GB. And those forums are not hardly used.
That's a weeks worth of DB and forum structures.

 

[whynot]

Nope, it says MB.

What about in phpMyAdmin?

 

[Amaury]

What about in phpMyAdmin?

"177 tables | Sum | ~232,874 | MyISAM | latin1_swedish_ci | 245.5 MiB | 309.8 KiB"

 

[MattW]

Hehehehe... my most recent backups (from one server) sat at 32GB. And those forums are not hardly used.
That's a weeks worth of DB and forum structures.

This is mine:

root@backupsy:/backup# ls -hl
total 40K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:52 daily.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:52 daily.1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:53 daily.2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:53 daily.3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:53 daily.4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 18 03:31 Databases
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 06:01 hourly.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:53 hourly.1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:54 hourly.2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:54 hourly.3
root@backupsy:/backup# du -sh *
23G     daily.0
153M    daily.1
115M    daily.2
129M    daily.3
4.0K    daily.4
1.7G    Databases
347M    hourly.0
186M    hourly.1
185M    hourly.2
172M    hourly.3
root@backupsy:/backup#

 

[oman]

Are there any other methods to take automated backups like the one @Tracy Perry mentioned?

My hosts think the best way to take a backup is via phpmyadmin, and it seems that since I'm on shared hosting it is the only way.