Backup/Restore options
 

What are y'all using for backing up your site? I tried a plain copy of the root folder and sub directories but being in a windows computer I have problems with folders named the same since windows dont care for upper/lower case. Seems there are about 4 gigs....
Please, go easy on this newbie....

What is your host and server?

They have godaddy. What info do you need from the server?

Server Type Linux
Web Server Apache
PHP 5.3.24

is that what you needed?

Just 2 cents. Be informed that php 5.3.x is E.O.L (end of life), and highly recommended to use php 5.4 and above. Seeing the latest vB4 update is not compatible with 5.3

so I have to ask my host to upgrade or is that something I have to do myself?

Not sure how godaddy handles things, and I have no idea what type of server you have (shared, vps or dedicated). Best to google around or ask godaddy.

As for being on-topic. How do you connect to the server, FTP?

we connect with ftp. If I have to guess I am sure this is a shared server but I will check with the account owner, if not I will check with go daddy.

Mind sharing which directories are exactly duplicates? (upper/lower cases), because I made tons of file backups by putting them on my HDD (windows) without any problems. As far as I know, vBulletin by default has no duplicate upper/lower directories.

we have 2 folders nam stuff, one is Stuff and other is STUFF. I am sure the one named STUFF is not from the initial install as no other folder that I have seen is all in upper case. Actually, I dont see any other folder capitalized either. Both have pictures in it. I will later on figure out where are these pictures used and consolidate those 2.
So, will a back up to my hd in my windows machine works as good as in a static page site? Has anyone restore from such folder without any problems?
I was hopping that maybe there is a software that could do differential backups instead of total backups all the time.

Thanks!

Looks like where images are being stored from your forums ie a custom folder you can find out what one is being used in the admincp for attachments then transfer from one folder to the folder that is being used and delete the folder that is not being used but do make a backup first

which again, brings me to the point, is ftping' to the site and dump all the folders in my hd the correct way to do a backup? Is there not an app than can do incremental or differential backups? Last time it took me like 6 hours to get it all copied...

it took you 6 hrs to download all files from your ftp if yes either you have a slow connection or you have a very slow host
I use this

I use that as well but it only backs up the database.

OP - Who is your host? Usually they have some type of a back up system that allows you to back up everything though ftp will work as well. I use Filezilla on occasion for this and just drag the public_html folder onto your pc, local storage to back it up.

Why not use a Cron Job to compress the public_html folder and store it on the server as a timestamped backup? One could probably even store only x amount of days and auto delete them thereafter. Seems more simple to download a compressed file. And if needed to restore, upload the single compressed file and uncompress it on the server.

Godaddy has built in back up options.

Only databases, as far as I know:

https://support.godaddy.com/help/art...osting-backups

Though Website Builder does:

https://support.godaddy.com/help/art...g-your-website

I think it depends on the server package.

ours are like sky rider states. We can back up the database then ftp the entire site to your pc.

Then I recommend either copy everything over besides the 'stuff' directories to your PC, or rename the 'stuff' directories temp and then move them over to your PC.

That is what I do, i only copy one stuff directory, rename it on my pc then copy the other one.. I will try to consolidate those 2 later.