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Submitted by thierryete on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 06:00.

Hello Nigel,

I was wondering how to do an easy complete backup of the files posted on our site.

Is there a way to have that as a function in the future?

As well it would be wonderful to have an automatic upgrade function in the future.

Thank you.

Thierry

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The easiest way to do a

Submitted by nigel on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 06:51.

The easiest way to do a backup is:

1. Make a dump of your database (phppgadmin or phpmyadmin can probably do this)
2. Make a copy of your dataroot directory - you can just tar it up, or rsync it somewhere else, or do whatever you need.

If you are talking about backup from the UI, that might be possible in future - you should file a feature request for this.

I'm not sure automatic upgrade is ever a good idea, not least because your webserver user should not be able to write to your code files. However, what would be cool is if there was some place in Mahara where you could go and see how out of date your installation was. Maybe you could file a feature request for that too?