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I am trying to work out the best way of backing up all my CMSMS sites without having to spend hours downloading all the files as (and you may scoff) the best connection I can get where I live is 1mb, so whenever I upload and download a full site it takes an age. I have about 7 sites to back up periodically, so as you can gather, it's a bit of a ballache.

By my reckoning, any site should just be the core downloaded files plus any extra module files in the 'modules' folder and anything in the 'uploads' folder. Would this be correct?

So, for example, if I have a site running on CMSMS 1.6 I just need to copy the core files from the original unpacked zip file and only download the contents of the modules and uploads folders in order to make the complete site backup along with the MySQL dump file.

Would that be right, or are there other folders that would have changed and therefore need downloading too?

Thanks is advance!

Hi djkirstyjay,
according to me, in standard installations, you can just download only uploads folder and mysql db (I don't think other data are stored in module directories) if you don't apply custom patches to modules or core files.

For this repetitive tasks I use Filebackup and Mysqldump modules. The first one use tar.gz to compress files so download times are reduced; you can also select custom folders to save and compress (in my case only uploads).

regards
blast

I have tried filebackup and it only seems to be backing up the plugins directory, so I don't trust it. Plus, I would prefer to not have to bakcup the whole lot... just the changing directories is good enough.

I use mysql dump and it's the business

djkirstyjay wrote: I have tried filebackup and it only seems to be backing up the plugins directory, so I don't trust it.

This was a bug and was fixed 2 hrs after release...

but I have just upgraded to the latest one??? It was working uk before...?

djkirstyjay wrote: but I have just upgraded to the latest one??? It was working uk before...?

Try uninstalling and reinstalling. It works fine.