Backing up Forums

[Jakub03]

Hello,

I need to recreate my site on a new database. Is there a way to backup the forums? So I won't need to recreate all the forums again? No users or anything need to be backed up but would be appreciated if that would be also back up.

[LifesGreatestGift]

if you have access to your database then just download it, and import it into the new site (make sure to update config.php on the new site to reflect the new database name/pass)

cPanel has a feature (if you use WHM/cPanel) to backup the entire database (users/forums/posts everything...)
in cPanel, you would download the database with the backup wizard, then import it into phpmyadmin (depending on size, you may need to import via SSH)

[Videx]

For God's sake man. As a forum admin you should be backing up your forum regularly! I use a script that does it daily, then a Windows script that downloads the backup to my local disk every day at noon.

This is "forum 101" and is not something you can ignore or assume someone else is doing for you.

[ProFifaLeagues]

Hello,

I need to recreate my site on a new database. Is there a way to backup the forums? So I won't need to recreate all the forums again? No users or anything need to be backed up but would be appreciated if that would be also back up.



It may well be worth you looking at Paul's Mod here for your backups if you are not doing your own
These can be set by cron job
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231481&highlight=backup