Creating an archive on subdomain?

[StarredSkies]

Afternoon! I'm looking to upgrade to 2.1 eventually, but due to the fact that many plugins do not work with the update, I would like to create an archive of my website's older version on a subdomain. The newer version would be a completely clean slate. (For example: old.website.com would be the archive, while website.com would be the newer version of SMF) How could I potentially achieve this?

[shadav]

in your hosting account create a backup of the files and database
create a new database, import the backup database to the new database
create a subdomain in your hosting account
upload the backup files into the new subdomain
upload the repair settings tool to the subdomain's folder and run it making sure to change all paths and urls to the new path and url as well as changing the database to the new database
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Repair_settings.php/en
set the site into maintenance mode if you don't want people to access it other than you the admin

I mean keeping a backup on your local hard drive is a good idea, don't really need to host it live on a site as when you upgrade to 2.1 no posts or anything in the database will be lost, just the customizations will be lost
though once 2.1 is finalized I'm sure a lot of the mods will be updated, it's just most don't want to keep messing with rc versions that constantly change, so they are waiting for 2.1 final before updating their mods

[StarredSkies]

You rock. Thank you so much!

As for the mods being updated, I dearly hope so. There's a few I have that haven't been touched in years though or the user is inactive. Hopefully an equivalent comes for those.

[Antechinus]

You can simplify that a bit. You do not actually need to export the old database, then import it to the new db. phpMyAdmin will let you copy any database to a new database.

[StarredSkies]

Sounds like a plan. Thank you both for responding quickly!

[Steve]

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