Topic: Installed a mod? Broke your forum? No backup? This might help.

[ArrayInteractive]

 

Truth be told I've become a little too comfortable with the ease of working with smf packages, things usually work so awesomely that it never occurred to me that I should backup before I try X. Despite the numerous warnings everywhere 

[K@]

* K@ burns his sig into the subconchuss bits of ArrayInteractive's (What a silly name!) psyche...

[repxl]

better is removing all the files and copy it new no ? cuz then you will keep the stucky files there . when you just copy and override it

[K@]

* K@ doesn't understand that last post...

If you're saying that overwriting all the files with new ones would work, you're right. Problem is, it'll also destroy all of your other mods, too.

Not a good idea, at all.

[AndreasN]

What if uploading the backup files wont help? 

[K@]

Create a topic in the support boards?

[Segnali di Trading .it]

sorry guys I'm a total noob: where and what should I backup? Is there a guide for noobs? 

Thank you!

[K@]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Backup

[Srinib]

Great SMF has this feature, and i feel secure after i came to know about this.

I have been testing a bunch of MODs in one of my test forum. I install them, uninstall them, again install and again uninstall and so on. So the backup files kept increasing in /Packages/backups.

Can i delete the earlier ones?

[K@]

Yep. It might be an idea to keep 'em on your hard disk, though, in case you ever need 'em.

If you KNOW that you're never gonna need 'em, dump 'em.