Speaking of backups, I don't

LisaRole — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:13:51 +0000

Speaking of backups, I don't know where to find backups plugins in wordpress 2.7 . need help ?

I use phpMyAdmin for my

seosean — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:56:43 +0000

I use phpMyAdmin for my backups - it works okay. But I think I should look into some of the other things you guys are using.

Drupal has a nice little

decibel.places — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:51:54 +0000

Drupal has a nice little module:

Backup and Migrate

it creates scheduled backups and on demand backups, and restores from backups

I also use it when moving a dev site from my machine online, I make a default installation and import the dev database! Much easier than mucking around in phpMyAdmin!

It doesn't lock the tables

pr0gr4mm3r — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:53:57 +0000

It doesn't lock the tables as far as I know. I would think that anybody that is using the site during the backup has missed the cut-off. Their data will be backed up the next time 'round.

I'm assuming by orphaned records, you mean where table1 is in relationship with table2, and a record was inserted in table1 & table2 after table1 was backed up, but table2 wasn't.

Do you lock tables when you

teammatt3 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:48:41 +0000

Do you lock tables when you do the backup? I'm considering unlocking tables during the backup. If I ever need to restore, I can manually delete abandoned records.

The problem I have is there are people using the database at all hours so whenever I run the backup, it locks them out for a few minutes.

My cPanel servers are

pr0gr4mm3r — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:38:27 +0000

My cPanel servers are automatically backed up using their backup scripts. For my home server, I use AutoMySQLBackup. It's just an interface to mysqldump, but I've never had a problem with it, even on larger databases.