Back-Up Question !
 

Hey guys

My freind gave me a phone last night asking how-to back up his forum. and if he gets a new host how dose he upload the back-up and when the back - up is uploaded will his site work again

i didnt know so i thought i should as you guys

Please ask your friend to come in and ask himself.

Or tell you friend to go to vb.com and go to the members section and look at the manual. There is a whole section on how to backup your site and reupload the backup and even how to move hosts.

the manual says this see below, however I think this is just for xml backup. How
do you do the whole site backup, the manual does not say.

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From the main vBulletin Options section, there is the ability to backup the options of each product including vBulletin itself.

This is useful when backing up a board or moving an install from one site to another, or for replicating a board from a test environment to a live site, or visa versa for testing purposes.

To download and back the settings, choose the product you wish to download from the select list and click backup.

To restore either upload the XML file from your computer or restore the XML file from your server, do that by either locating the file to upload then clicking restore or giving the path to the XML settings file on your local server, then clicking restore.

Blacklisted settings by default are ignore, though you can override that with the option during restore.

Besides backing up your MySQL database, you should also backup your avatars, profile picts, sig picts, and attachments if they are all in the file system, not in the database.