Database Back Up

[Bobn]

Hi,

Im trying to upgrade from RC2 to RC4 and I cant seem to get a good DB back up. When I select DB backup in the admin panel it sends me here but the file is not found:

Firefox can't find the file at http://mywebsite.com/index.php?action=admin;area=maintain;sa=database;activity=backup.

[Matthew K.]

Do you have cPanel?

[Bobn]

Do you have cPanel?

Plesk

[Matthew K.]

If you can get in to phpMyAdmin, you can back up your database that way. I have only used Plesk a handful of times, so I'm not positive where you'd go.

[Bobn]

Hi,

Still messing about with this. I have an existing RC2 board and have created another new RC4 board and am trying to import the rc2 DB to the rc 4 . I export the RC2 (gzipped) and then try to import it in the RC4 DB using phpmyadmin but It wont go. 

[Road Rash Jr.]

When you use the large upgrade file it will modify the RC2 DB to RC4 stecks, you cannot import an older RC DB into a newer one as you've discovered  .

[MrPhil]

Also, some servers are configured so that certain operations such as "create database" cannot be done from a program or even from phpMyAdmin -- you have to do it from the control panel (cPanel or Plesk). You might be running into that. It's also possible that the database layout has changed a bit between RC2 and RC4 -- if so, and there's no upgrade utility (Road Rash said there is), you'll have to modify the .sql file in a text editor to change the structure and data INSERTs.