Backing up

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by havenots

Oh my god I am so lost, I didn't know what I was getting myself into, I have absolutely know idea what I am doing, it's truly astounding I have got this far though. Till now I have never done anything with computers other than surf the net and post on a few forums.

I have got this forum up and running, don't ask how the head is still spinning. www.myforumplace.com. We have been up and running for just over a week, I have not backed anything up as yet and I am very concerned. I have read heaps but am still at a total lose as how I do this, can someone start with the real basics first and explain the process in layman terms. How where and what do I need to back up.

I do apologizes for asking such basic questions but some help would be appreciated.

BTW I am hosted through Go Daddy

Thanks Vin

you go into a HOSTING my hosted site or something like that
then Cpanel you will have to look around, your looking for php administration, it will have an option to do a backup on the server side i think the use starfield or something on godaddy, its a shared server setup so its not actually hosted on godaddy i don't think. but doing a sql dump from there is much better than dumping it through vb


just go to godaddy and search around for HOSTING backup, stuff like that it will also allow a restore through that same area the file will be like myforum.sgl.gz or something like that


if not go daddy does do weekly back up automatically but like lynne says you should know how to do it ..you may have to restore it sometime..