BackUp

[ReptiGuy]

I have SMF version 1.5 and I am wanting to upgrade to 1.6.

I went to Forum Maintenance to get back up files and when clicked on download a window came up telling me:

File Type: GZIP compressed archive file

File Extension: .gzip

Description: GZip files contain one or more files that have been compressed and packaged into an archive file.

Software or information available at:
Aladdin Systems Stuffit for Windows
WinAce
WinImp
WinZip

You may search the following Web site for related software and information:

Windows Live Search
You may purchase or download software related to this file type from the following Web site:

Windows Marketplace

What does this mean?

Also when I uncheck compress with gzip it says:

File Type: Unknown

Description: Windows does not recognize this file type.

You may search the following Web site for related software and information:

Windows Live Search
You may purchase or download software related to this file type from the following Web site:

Windows Marketplace

[vbgamer45]

Gzip is a file format. For windows I suggest getting winrar to handle those types of files.
You can get it from
http://rarlabs.com/

[ReptiGuy]

I already have 7-Zip so will that work?

[vbgamer45]

It should if you associate that filetype with 7zip

[ReptiGuy]

I was finally able to upload something and I want to know if this is the backup.

It is "mydomain_forum-data_2008-10-23.sql[3].gz\". Is this the backup?

[vbgamer45]

Looks like it as long as all the table structure is there and it complete it is good to go.

[ReptiGuy]

Something went wrong with my forum so I had to import the backup and when I did it said there was an error with the attachment table.

Will it always have this error?

[greyknight17]

Are you trying to import or export your forum database now? If you have problems with the SMF backup, I highly recommend using the backup feature from your webhost instead or from phpMyAdmin. I never had problems restoring from either of those backups.

What error is it giving you exactly when you did the import?