[Cyn]

Hello everyone. Hoping I can find some help here.

I'm an admin for a vB but I have little to no knowledge of anything beyond the admin panel - learning as I go and hoping to learn alot.

my situation is this: I need to backup our boards so I can upgrade to the latest version. I would also like to set up a cron job to do an automatic backup every night. I have no idea where to begin and the threads and articles I've read are just way over my head. The most I've done so far is FTP some smilies to the images file and alter a few templates. I have no telnet knowledge or experience nor MySQL. I am a remote admin - reeeeealy remote. Our office is in Santa Fe and our server in LA. I'm in Arabia. Our webmaster is clueless as well so I'm pretty much alone in this.

What I'd like is for someone to walk me through this stuff. I want to learn, not just pay someone to do it for me. I would be willing to pay someone for the tutoring though

Anyone interested in helping me out?
~Cyn