GameAction:
Thanks for your response on this thread:
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GameAction wrote:
maintenance mode will bring your site up with a message for user where you can say what's going on... something like update in progress stay tuned
Sure! I'm going to be shutting it down as soon as I can at least get the mySQL database and the other small stuff backed-up.
I guess I'll be looking for a way to permit access only to one page, "index.html" (say) which will tell users, "Sorry, closed for maintenance..." Maybe .htaccess sorcery, I guess. I'll look ...
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GameAction wrote:
50gb+ it's a big site, damn big to have a full backup....
Yeah, really! I've persuaded my neighbor to do some downloading for me. Two DSL lines should be better than one.
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GameAction wrote:
i think that your idea at this point is quite good, if you can have a second database with all your data for upgrade test directly online. i don't know how, but talking with your hosting for that can probably save some time on download.
Thanks! I wish I had more confidence in the hosting service. I noticed that their documents are quite simple and there is no user forum at all, and the only alternative left is to call customer service. I'm prepared to get someone quite ... uninformed.
I'm checking into backing-up directly to another site I own. If this can be done, the data rate should be much higher than even 2 DSL lines. But so far, I have not been successful.
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GameAction wrote:
in the officiale package ther's an update for v6, so v6 to v7 directly is possible, BUT you are on an old v6.00 and you need at least to update to v6.01 to go v7.
D'oh! I was really afraid that would be true. Multiple steps like that make the process much slower and less certain. But if I do this locally, I might be OK.
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GameAction wrote:
test on local server it's the best idea tought, you can save your members account table and test the upgrade process. but for not having problems with all your data you need the full database :|
Please walk though all the kinds of "data" I need to worry about:
(1) My data files, mostly large JPG images, 50+GB of them.
The PHPFusion pages visitors see contain links to all those JPG images, but never directly reference them. So I think I can do OK with only a few of these on my test installation, or some dummy images with the same name.
(2) The mySQL database, which contains nearly all the content users see within the PHPFusion frames, right? This database is not visible in my user space, but I can generate a database dump through PHPmyAdmin. Then I can use a restore to a new installation the same way. Right?
(3) The accounts table is not in the mySQL database? Where is it? I need to be certain to get that to the new trial installation.
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By the way, do you know, is there a way to dump all the user records to a text file? I checked with my super-admin privileges, but all I could manage is see user names and data, one at a time. For 2500 users, that's not going to work.
thanks,
Henry