1) I keep hearing that before installing a module or doing this/that one should make the backup. I wanted to know how can i make a backup. The easiest and safe way.

I use Cpanel and it has an option of site backup, can that be used? is there any way i can make a backup and its stored on the server and i dont have to download it.

2) i have exported members from invision board, more than 500 members ... the problem is that they are all inactive. how can i make them active in one go and not manually one by one.

3) how can i syncronize thier posts in one go?

Answer to question 1:

You can control your database (tables) using yout MySQLAdmin page. But, why don't you use a module for making a backup of your database?

For instance:

https://xoops.org/modules/repository/singlefile.php?cid=17&lid=1461

Wildo

cPanel also has cron jobs that you can set up to run.

That will back up specific directories, like /modules or whatever.

Many people here use the cron jobs to back up the enitre site on a schedule...like daily at midnight....
I use backpack by bluemoon to do my DB backups daily...

Essentially, you want to back up whatever it is you are going to replace or alter. So, as an example, if you have NewBB 1.01 installed, and plan to upgrade to NewBB 2.0 or 2.02...you'd definately want to back up the current NewBB module files and all of the NewBB database info.

As for the IPB users....
are they IPB users from a stand alone IPB install, or are they IPB users from the IPB port into xoops?
Are you trying to make them active IPB users or active XOOPS users?
Are you syncing their posts etc after having imported it all into an XOOPS BB or what?

"Help me, help you..."

Thanks for the reply. I will try the bluemoon.

here is how i have got users.

I have been using phpbb for the last 2 years ----> IPB ver 1.3 ----> X-IPB ie ported IPB for xoops.

Are you trying to make them active IPB users or active XOOPS users?

They are inactive for both. since it is ported so its the same user for XOOPS and IPB. My website is in beta. and i am testing different modules and site design. where as my standalone phpbb is still running on the site. so what i do is, i copy all members and data often to update the new members here. but that results in excessive (double)number of thier original posts.
so i want to syncronize all the posts of XOOPS members with that of thier original post count.

the original site:http://www.ayubians.com
original forums:http://www.ayubians.com/forums
xoops site:http://www.ayubians.com/thesite
Xoops ported IPB:http://ayubians.com/thesite/modules/ipboard/

I hope i have made my question clear now . thanks


P.S: I found a solution for syncronizing the # number of posts. I will delete all the members except mine and import again. this way i will only have to sync.. my own posts. but how can i make all members active quickly

If it was me, I'd use a text editor and my SQL dump of the users.

If you do a dump of an 'active' user, and compare that to the table data of the inactive users...you could do a 'find and replace' of the specific text in the data dump. Replacing the field indicators that show 'inactive' with 'active'.

This will probably be the difference between a 1 and a 0 or something equally as minute or similar.

After I get home...I can extract a couple of 'visual' examples from my dtatabse and hopefully make it easier to understand what I am blathering about