Database Backup for Beginners
You need to do a forum backup, and yes you need do do it now, put it off and it may be to late!
- Login to your board and go to the "Admin Control Panel".
- Your "phpMyAdmin" link is found in the "Utilities" section.
- Enter your database username and password to enter.
- Select your database (if you have more than one).
- Once loaded, click on the "Export" tab at the top of the page.
- Under the Export table you will see a large box showing either the database name (if so just highlight), or a list of tables starting with phpbb_ , make sure the SQL input button is chosen, and click on "Select All" which will highlight all tables.
- Under the SQL Options table (in the bottom Data section) tick the "Complete inserts" checkbox.
- Under the Structure table (which should be auto-checked) you will see a "ADD DROP TABLE" checkbox which you should also tick.
- Near the bottom of the page tick the "Save as file" checkbox.
- If you would like to compress the file into a zipped/gzipped format select so, and click "Go".
- You will then get a normal popup save window, where you should select "Save to disk".
Easy! The database backup is created, the advantage is that you have the file on your hard-drive, and will be able to check if it's complete. If it's less than 8 MB, you know something has gone wrong, so just try again.
- Open your backup file in a text editor and scroll to the bottom.
- The last thing you should see is the "phpbb_words" table dumping data, if it is you know your backup is completely successful.
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-- Dumping data for table `phpbb_words`
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