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womble Posts: 5506 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	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. _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~


BobbyDouglas Posts: 5455 Joined: 5/15/2003 From: Arizona Status: offline	RE: Must have toy for all SMF forum owners - 2/18/2007 19:52:40 You could also have a host that does a good job with backups Good backup options are always nice to have though. _____________________________ Arizona Web Design - Mr Bobs Web Design in Arizona The Arizona Web Hosting Challenge (in reply to womble)


jaybee Posts: 14134 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Must have toy for all SMF forum owners - 2/19/2007 5:50:34 Cool tool but my host does daily backups and I do a full account backup once a week so hopefully I'm covered. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to BobbyDouglas)


womble Posts: 5506 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: Must have toy for all SMF forum owners - 2/19/2007 14:19:11 Yeah, my host does daily backups too. Not that I'm paranoid or anything, but... _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ (in reply to jaybee)


Starhugger Posts: 512 Joined: 4/12/2005 Status: offline	RE: Must have toy for all SMF forum owners - 2/22/2007 13:02:47 quote: ORIGINAL: womble 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. Um... why don't you just change the reminder date or time? Just wondering. SH (in reply to womble)