Backing up that site of yours.
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- Paul Fischer
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My objective here is to properly backup my joomla installation and website. I've done so many little changes and configurations that it would be terrible if I didn't have a backup!!
I wanted to pick your collective minds about backing up and restoring a backup. First though, I'm using the Akeeba backup to create a nifty .zip file of the directory http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-&-security/backup/1606/details .
For new people to this component there is a great pdf quick start guide here: http://downloads.joomlacode.org/frsrelease/5/5/5/55569/AkeebaBackupQuickStart.pdf . This was super helpful if you want to know how backing up works.
So here is where I'm lost. I have my .zip file of my production website and my FTP properly configured. I'd like to take this .zip file of my production site, uncompress it and put it on my development site; both sites use different DB's. Does this make a difference?
Is it as simple as copying the files over to the development site and *boom* you're up and running again-- I'm sure there are some configuration things I have to do? Basically, I'd like to mirror my current site.
Thanks for the advice on this!! I'll be happy to have reliable backups of the site and the knowledge to redeploy them if necessary.
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- Paul Fischer
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My development site has the default instance of joomla installed on it already. I would assume, after thinking about it some (haven't tried yet though), that I could just copy my production files over to the development and I'd be able to mirror whats on the production site.
Although I could be missing something. Is this how you guys back up/re-deploy/ or create mirrored sites?
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- Ben Lee
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When re-uploading a site, you need a blank database and then you upload and unpack all the files. When you visit your site, there will be an install process that it will walk you through, similar to installing Joomla the first time.
Then you use your new database information and it repopulates the database with all your sites info.
Then that's it and you're done.
Not sure what the best procedure is for mirrored sites though, so I can't elaborate there.
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- Paul Fischer
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That makes sense, thanks for your reply; I'll have to do this.
What would happen if I didn't have a blank database and upload/ unpack all of my files in the root -- then rewrite over top all the existing files. Would this break Joomla?
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- Ben Lee
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What would happen if I didn't have a blank database and upload/ unpack all of my files in the root -- then rewrite over top all the existing files. Would this break Joomla?
Technically, things should be fine...BUT, if you have anything that's a hacked file or added file that's a security issue, it would be deleted if you delete everything first then unpack all your files.
If you're restoring a site, I would restore it from scratch first in an empty directory, or directory where the other directories and files there don't conflict with any of your site's, then do any updates or changes after it's up and running.
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- Paul Fischer
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- OK yup, that is easy to do. Good thing i keep my public_html folder tidy so I can easily create new instances of joomla/website with ease. Thanks Ben, this is making more sense.
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