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medicalforums
08-07-2009, 04:23 AM
I've seen several mods and hacks and websites talking about the best way of backing up the MySQL database.

I host with hostgator and in their cPanel there's something called "backups" which includes a backup of MySQL database.
Am using this to download a database copy to my local drive every now and then.
Am not sure how reliable is that because I haven't restore the database "thanks God" so far.

Do you think that method is OK?

Anyone is using it or tried to restore the database in this way?

Marco van Herwaarden
08-07-2009, 11:49 AM
A lot will probably disagree, but i find the cPanel backups usefull.