Seeking advice for backing up Mambo and SMF

[Martin02]

Could anyone share suggesstions on the best way to backup my Mambo-SMF site? Ideally, I'd like it to be automated.

I've just started looking into the BigApe backup component for Mambo hxxp:www.bigape.co.uk/ [nonactive].  Could it be used to backup SMF too?

Thanks!
Martin
hxxp:www.rmbmw2002.com [nonactive]

[Kindred]

It certainly looks as if that BigApe component would work

IF!
1) You have your forum directory installed as a subdirectory of your mambo site.
2) You have SMF and mambo in the same database

[Aravot]

I use MySQL Administrator

[Martin02]

Aravot:
So you use MySQL Administrator to back up the database, what do you do to back up your files?

Kindred:
Both SMF and Mambo share the same database, but I have the SMF folder on the site root along with all my Mambo folders.  I may try BigApe anyway to see what happens.

Anyone else have backup suggesstions?

Thanks all!
Martin

[Aravot]

Aravot:
So you use MySQL Administrator to back up the database, what do you do to back up your files?

Thanks all!
Martin

Once a month I backup all the files, dump through ftp.

[Ciinien]

Once a week all site folders/files backed up via ftp download. Database backed up after EVERY major change (Mambo and SMF share a database). I save the current backup and one legacy, deleting the oldest archives. That's probably too much backing up, but I've had s-o-o many problems getting all this working right and just don't take chances any more...
Cheers!
Ci