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George_h
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Jun 10, 2002, 6:00 PM

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Hi All

I am the proud new owner of Article manager... I am pretty thrilled with it and I have been having a play around for the last few hours....

My server does not have an auto back up facility. So I cannot just click a button and have it all done for me.

Call me paranoid but I have been hit hard before in the past with server failure. So I want to keep regular back ups of all my articles.

Is it ok to just copy them to my local drive and if I did lose everything would a new instalation of the software recognise them. I am obviously keeping copies of my templates etc but I just wondered if anyone had any advice..

Many thanks

George


Dave
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Jun 10, 2002, 8:00 PM

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Hi George,

Good thinking, keeping regular backups is ALWAYS a great idea. Here's the directories you want to download:

/data/ - These are all your data files
/templates/ - All the program templates are in here
/uploads/ - user uploaded files go here

To re-create your site from a backup all you need to do is reinstall, upload the files above, and click "Publish All" under Setup Options and Article Manager will republish all the pages for you.

PS: I'm going to add your auto backup idea "... click a button and have it all done for me ..." to our feature wishlist for the next version of Article Manager. I think that would be a great idea for something the software could do itself.



Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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fraser_itools
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Jun 11, 2002, 9:08 AM

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How do you think that would work Dave? Have it backup to a single file, email it to you? If we did that we should also have an easy way to restore files.

Of course then you start to get into versioning, which would be really cool. With the ability to rollback the site to previous versions.
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Dave
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Jun 11, 2002, 12:09 PM

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Yea, that's pretty much what I was thinking... Have it backup everything into a single file and email it to the admin user, or perhaps let them download it from their browser. That way they wouldn't have their email client getting clogged up if they had 50 megs of backup data! : )

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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George_h
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Jun 11, 2002, 2:49 PM

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Hi Dave

Thanks for the speedy responce. I had a little guestbook once that gave you the option of how often you wanted the book saved.

It saved one file to a server file once a day and then mailed one to you if you wanted. You could suggest the frequency ect..

Kind Regards

George
Kind Regards

George