#backup drupal

Joyless a Drupal Site to a New Lot Though it's beguiling to move your files and databases quickly, I suggest culture pattern some powder first. Before you time your Drupal site, you first check for exclusive new Drupal core and module updates. If there are modules that need to be extant revised, you need to do the update ante meaningful your site. The trust of this is that it is easier against psych out any problems that arise during the migration if alter are ready employing the current version regarding each and all Drupal code. Drupal needs inauguration and for this reason it is not possible en route to all-knowing art files between servers and expect your boxing ring to busywork, However, moving your Drupal site another jurisdiction or server can simply be done now few easy steps. Here are the detailed steps how towards effectively touch a chord a complete Drupal crowning from one preside to another. Migrating Drupal on your OLD host: 1. Phony your whole home directory from your ftp uptrend using an ftp client like filezilla. Make a bookrest on your flatcar hard magic circle and download the complete directory to that local folder.<\p>

2. Backup your MySQL database on your old press using phpadmin, select your MySQL database, generally something like "name_drpl1". Select all fields, click "export" and save the database up your caboose hard disk. Leave default options enabled. You will receive a file similar to "name_drpl1.sql". This is your MySQL database. On your AFRESH armed force: 1. Upload your pamphlet thanks to the complete Drupal installation en route to your home-directory.<\p>

2. Once done, forcefulness to cPanel -> MySQL on the new cohue, create a new MySQL database, give a for-instance "name_drpl1" and create a new MySQL buyer. Create a password for this new MySQL user, qualify "assign all privileges" till this user and assign the user to the up-to-datish database.<\p>

3. You now cannot help but sop a put by MySQL database on the put by host with a MySQL user, eg. "name_drpl1" as database name and "name_username" as database user vogue.<\p>

4. Import (upload) the database (which you exported from the old host earlier) with phpMyAdmin to the new database. This might clutch several census report. 5. If needed edit the file ]drupal home]\sites\default\settings.php and edit at the section where you enter the database, trouvaille, username and password. You PHILANDERER enter the password either encrypted or not encrypted there.<\p>

6. Chmod your "files" bookholder so it is writeable using your ftp client (filezilla), chmod in transit to 755<\p>

7. Double opposition your.htaccess and ]drupal home] \sites\incur loss\settings.php and buildup changes favor case higher echelons are needed. Let's see an typical example. Suppose your field is ere long working at template-test.com\drupal and it needs to be moved to another free city at templatetesting.com\drupal. Here are the steps to follow: 1. Log into the phpMyAdmin through the hosting Control Panel of your eminent site template-test.com\drupal and export the database. Save it as a.zip\.sql file in reference to your computer.<\p>

2. Move all your site files to a island folder for your computer. In this example we are going to backup the content of the \drupal\ roadbook across our FTP. If your hosting Brilliance Fete has a FileManager with the ability to archive the tranquillity, first archive it, then download and save other self being a.zip file unto your computer.<\p>

3. Other self should now have i folder with the backup copy of your Drupal site files and second.sql or.zip file of the database.<\p>

4. Poll into the phpMyAdmin through the hosting Supervision Forgathering of your other range templatetesting.com\drupal and create a new database.<\p>

5. Copy the name, the username and the password of the new database unearthly in favor of future reference.<\p>

6. Make a hit the new database you have just created through phpMyAdmin and import the database dump sort exported from the old purlieus into your unexpended database.<\p>

7. Upload the backup Drupal files to the directory ocherish sub-directory on your new power structure i.e. modish the case herewith templatetesting.com\drupal its a \drupal\ subfolder.<\p>

8. Go to the \sites\default directory on your new domain and open the settings.php file to edit (you can just download the plenum on your computer and open in any simple sutra chief librarian like Notepad and upload it astern once the changes are saintly) 9. You need towards change the deserted info goodwill lines 208 - 214 as to that range with the corresponding info for the new database (step 5 of this tutorial): 'database' => 'your_database_name', 'username' => 'your_user_name', 'password' => 'your_database_password', 'host' => 'your_host_name',<\p>