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Safest way to archive 5 years of posts and design?
Something about my Textpattern database on TextDrive hosting is preventing me from using any of their usual techniques for migrating to Joyent’s new shared accelerator hosting. I have less than 60 days remaining on the old server.
I hate to lose 5 years of work.
- Do any of you have suggestions for what I should do to try and preserve everything associated with my weblog so that it might one day be restored somewhere?
- Is there some particular format that I should use for backing up the database?
- Should I simply open all the templates, pages and forms and copy them as individual text files to my local PC?
- Are there other steps I should take?
True confessions: I have not been using any backup method for the database, templates, etc. Perhaps that’s too much trust in a host, but I now need to right my wrong and begin using a proper method.
“Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.” General ‘Buck’ Turgidson
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#2 2007-09-13 16:22:48
- els
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Re: Safest way to archive 5 years of posts and design?
6sigma wrote:
Something about my Textpattern database on TextDrive hosting is preventing me from using any of their usual techniques for migrating to Joyent’s new shared accelerator hosting.
I’m not really sure what you mean by this, so excuse me if this is the wrong answer, but why wouldn’t these instructions work for you?
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Re: Safest way to archive 5 years of posts and design?
Thanks, Els. I’ll take a look at that. Thus far, none of the methods for exporting and importing the database have worked for me. Perhaps the TextBook method will be the key.
“Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.” General ‘Buck’ Turgidson
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#4 2007-09-13 16:38:52
- els
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Re: Safest way to archive 5 years of posts and design?
6sigma wrote:
Thus far, none of the methods for exporting and importing the database have worked for me. Perhaps the TextBook method will be the key.
Let us know if it isn’t. Sure we can find a way that works for you (c/p’ing article by article will probably take you another 5 years…)
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Re: Safest way to archive 5 years of posts and design?
I’ve begun the move of my site http://rodentregatta.com/. My question involves my sidebar links which currently return a “Not Found The requested URL /archive/ was not found on this server.”
Can someone point me toward what I might have overlooked? Thanks.
EDIT: I’ve also noticed that my header navigation bar is returning the same error. Is this more likely a problem in the config.php file or in the Textpattern Admin-Preferences for ‘file directory path’ and ‘temporary directory path’?
EDIT2: Just realized I had failed to move my .htaccess file to the new host. Did it. Solved the problem!
Last edited by 6sigma (2007-09-14 16:00:55)
“Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.” General ‘Buck’ Turgidson
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#6 2007-09-20 12:41:31
- Mary
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Re: Safest way to archive 5 years of posts and design?
If your database is really big, you can simply run mysqldump from the commandline. That’s what I do for the forum, it is too big, causing phpMyAdmin to timeout.
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Re: Safest way to archive 5 years of posts and design?
If all else fails, open a support ticket asking for help with migrating the database over to the new hosting plan.
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