[Gimmick]

I didnt have much success with this last night ... Only had a few hours though to give.

Can you tell me the best method to make an exact duplicate of the live forum on the testvb?

I have tried coping the whole contents of my forum to the testvb folder, then manually uploading a backup of the mysql databases through mysql admin.

I can then see the testvb is exactly the same but I cannot log in then. It saying logging me in, but just takes me back to the you are not logged in screen?

I thought it might be the passwords cannot be imported, so tried to change my password on the testvb, but it changed it on the live forum ?

Do I need to configure the config.php file to show it for testvb?

If I can gete a working copy of my live forum, that will allow me to work on the errors, and document it, so I can over the weekend, turn the live board off for a few hours and make the nessecary upgrades and changes etc

Thanks for reading and your patience again...

Gim

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Step by Step here

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=252648

I will give this a go tonight....

Also read some nice backup posts.... So glad I did more digging....

Will update the thread as and when