|
womble -> *Must have* toy for all SMF forum owners (2/18/2007 19:31:01)
|
At 6pm each Wednesday my PDA beeps at me to remind me to do a backup of the database of one of my forums. This is rather unfortunate because at 6pm I'm usually eating my tea, so I tend to either ignore it, or press snooze, and then forget about it until 6pm on Thursday when it beeps at me to remind me to back up another forum. Not a very satisfactory state of affairs.
I've not quite mastered the art of cron jobs, so for the moment I'm having to relay on me remembering to manually do the backups. Not any more though!
Enter the completely wonderful Java SMFBackup which I discovered yesterday. It's also available on the SMF site's downloads - in the 3rd party tools list.
Give it your SMF forum's URL, your admin username and password and frequency you want to backups doing (from hourly to every 72 hours), and it's off, backing up the database and downloading it to your computer. It can handle several different SMF forums - just add a new forum to it's list and give it all the necessary information, and wait for it to do it's stuff.
Now I can put a stop to that annoying little beep from my PDA. [sm=boogie.gif]
|
|
|
|
