Hello,

I'm about to let loose user's at the office to use Xoops.
To recover from user error's I have done the following to
backup my Xoop site.

1. Exported the whole XOOPS database using phpmyadmin
2. Create a cron job to weekly backup the root dir.
3. Downloaded the whole site using Dreamweaver to a
local file onto my laptop.

Have I missed anything? Preventing me from recovering
in the event my Xoop site suffers a disaster.

Thank you!

jva1601

If you're backing up the XOOPS database tables and the XOOPS file directory, you should be safe.

As a test, I would try loading the backup to a temporary database and directory, to verify that it works.

I would also skim through the backups occasionally, or at least look at the file sizes, just to make sure there aren't any drastic changes.

You could try a test recovery?

1-Upload all your back-up files to a separate directory
2-Copy your database and rename the copy
3-Upload the new DB to your server as a new database.
4-Reconfigure your test sites mainfile.php to your new installation details.

You should now have working a copy of the production site.

This is actually more involved than a site restore, because you need to reconfigure your mainfile.php for the new directory address and DB. Its purly practice value.

Note: if you have any hard coded in-site URLs they may not be correct in the new installation. This is the benefit of using <{XOOPS_URL}> as it's always correct with your root.

Caveat: mainfile.php is your most important file as it connects to the database etc. ALWAYS have a backup.

HAHA hehe Dave, you got there first while I was posting

To update this thread I'd thought I'd posed my experience following suggestions posted here.

Murhphy's law did strike last Sunday. My hard drive failed! Luckily I have all XOOPS files backup including the database so I was able to recover all of the site from the latest backup.

I was able to successfully used my exported MySQL database using phpmyadmin. Database exported using Webmin's MySQL module did not work. After uploading my backup XOOPS files I had to chmod 777 cache, template_c, uploads to work correctly.

jva1601