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I was loving CMS

but now it looks like its all over

My site was down and I was like what is this ?

Contacted my hosting and this is what they've sent me:

Dear Valued Customer,

Server Voda14 (75.126.169.138) experienced a mild freak electrical surge which corrupted "fried" the mother board, and corrupted the hard drives, this includes the primary and the back up drives. 10% of the 600 accounts (including yours) on Voda14 have experienced complete primary and backup data decay, Do to this fact, we have had to reset you account from scratch to “Brand New” status. Please republish your web pages and recreate your email accounts.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Always at your service.
VodaHost
Your Website People!

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http://www.vodahost.com/tos.htm
Section 5
Backups and Data Loss

Laura Dunkin
Customer Care
www.VodaHost.com
Your Website People!


. . . .What can I do . . .

Do you have offsite backups?

yeah only one problem all those files are .html and my new url thanks to this cms were seo friendly. but I guess its a lot of copying and pasting.

My hope is that everyone who is on voda host goes somewhre else immdiately because if your host ain't reliable - then its over.

and i have to back up.

I guess this would be a right to ask

how do i backup using this cms - thanks

PS: I'm alright - I'm not a quitter

there is a backup module (which I think can email you the database dump, but dont quote me on that)

basically backing up cmsms consists of two parts. Database backup and file backup. Database holds all your templates / css / page content and so on and files contain your images / pdf files and so on.

first take a db dump (with mysqldump or some of the backup scripts found in the forum) and then copy all the files plus the dump to a safe location.

Preferably offsite as backing data up on the same machine or even the same building is not advisable as illustrated by your hosting company

Good luck with getting your site back up!

I think I found something:

I found the exact set of folders and files that you get with the CMS Download.

However, what I notice is that i have tons of files in the templates.c folder.

This tells me that I probably in the past just copied and pasted the entire directory from my file.

Bottom line,

How can I put this back up and what steps do I need to take.

Thanks

JB

templates_c is just a cache for processed templates you can delete them, they will get regenerated on next page view.

the files wont help much, all content, templates and css are in the database. thats why database dump is your friend.

you can try deleting templates_c folder content and uploading all files to your server, check all config.php paths and try accessing your page. If you are lucky they had sql server on some other machine that didnt loose data, if you are not you will probably get some weird error messages.

you could also email your hosting company and ask if they have backups of the database.

Good luck

Data base backup is on this site, the one that works with CMSMS 1.x and up...

http://multiintech.com/cmsms4/index.php ... tensions-2

How I move sites...

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 376.0.html

  Good luck...