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crustybum:
This must have been asked many times but a "real" backup facility in the admin area...i mean what point is the backup thats there already if you cant restore it?

Kindred:
while we all know that the backup functionality needs to be fixed...   what the heck would you do with a restore? The point of a backup is (usually) that something trashed your site - so how would you get to a restore function if the site is down and you need to restore?

that makes no sense.

crustybum:
er, surely you would upload SMF and then restore? or is that too simple? or is that the back up is purely cosmetic?

emanuele:
Do you want the truth and only the truth?


--- Quote from: crustybum on July 20, 2012, 09:23:11 AM ---is that the back up is purely cosmetic?

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That.

Is there just because people don't want to go to phpmyadmin to take backups.

Arantor:
Assuming you have a good backup of the DB... you'd just restore the DB.

I have run SMF for years, including restoring DB backups in that time and I have never gone back through to reinstall SMF (and then all the mods) when I could just do the actual job that I need to do: restore the DB.


--- Quote ---Is there just because people don't want to go to phpmyadmin to take backups.
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Back in the day it was because hosts didn't always give it out, but given that most hosts do, and for those that don't, you can install it yourself anyway...

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