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Re: Forum Back Up and Running
« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2025, 15:43:38 pm »
Works again  ;D ;D

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Re: Forum Back Up and Running
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2025, 16:11:41 pm »
Whoever did that, well done.
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Re: Forum Back Up and Running
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2025, 16:13:11 pm »
I tried every buttons randomly in the admin maintenance panel  :o  ;D ... and one do the trick by optimizing the database ! .. but it deleted the last topic about image digitization ... but now we can post !

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Re: Forum Back Up and Running
« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2025, 23:59:06 pm »
Thanks David for all you do for the forum. Much appreciated.

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Re: Forum Back Up and Running
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2025, 13:29:25 pm »
Thank you david for dealing with this.
If you have access to the admin panel you can perhaps make backups from time to time.

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Re: Forum Back Up and Running
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2025, 14:14:19 pm »
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If you have access to the admin panel you can perhaps make backups from time to time.

Yes I can make a backup, I tried and I get a 72 MB file but ... seems there is no option in the maintenance panel to use this saved file to restore the forum ; certainly it is an option that only Andy can access ..

And of course if the forum is unavailable (error 500 or 503) I can't do anything ..

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Re: Forum Back Up and Running
« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2025, 10:53:10 am »
Hello David,

a backup of the forum consists of three parts.
The first part is the database.
The second is the forum software with the configuration files.
The third part is the directory with the attachments and the CSS Files.

You wrote about a 72 Mb database. You can save it via “Forum Maintenance‘’ in the Admin Panel. There you have the option of backing up the database with or without the table structure. I would always back up the version with the table structure. I personally think a backup via phpMyAdmin is better.

The second part is the forum software. You can download the appropriate version of the pure forum software at https://www.simplemachines.org and reinstall it according to the instructions.
SMF 2.0.17 requires PHP 7.3

What is still missing is the attachments directory and the CSS Files from the old forum. This is always the largest directory in a forum, as all images and attachments are collected there. The directory must be completely backed up and restored. The structure created by the SMF forum is important here. It is therefore best to compress the entire directory and back it up in this way.

So you need the database and the directories with attachments and avatars from the old server

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