How do I backup albums

Elessa

Joined: 2009-10-14
Posts: 3
Posted: Wed, 2009-10-14 23:22

I did a search of the forum and am not finding an answer to how to backup albums, images, etc. I am used to Gallery1 and being able to make a tarball.

I am using Gallery3 beta 3.

Operating System: Linux 2.6.20.2mtv8
PHP: 5.2.6
MySQL: 5.1.26-rc-5.1.26rc-log

Thanks!
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nivekiam
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Joined: 2002-12-10
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Posted: Wed, 2009-10-14 23:27

Albums and images are stored in gallery3/var/albums

However, that's not the only thing you'll want to backup.

--Backup ALL (well most, better to do all) of gallery3/var

--Backup your database

--If you've made changes to G3 themes or even core files, backup those as well.

Aside from some naming conventions, the basic scheme for backing up G3 is the same as G2:
FAQ: How do I backup G2?

In G3 you have your data directory /var/, your database and the G3 program files and themes

In G2 you have your data directory, g2data, your database and the G2 program files and themes :)
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Elessa

Joined: 2009-10-14
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Posted: Wed, 2009-10-14 23:42

hrm... Interesting. Thank you for the quick response.

I do not have access to phpmyadmin which is gonna make this a wee bit difficult. I guess I need to have a chat with my webhost.
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nivekiam
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Posted: Thu, 2009-10-15 00:02

You can install it :)
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

It's a PHP based application just like Gallery. You'll just need to keep it up to date for security issues. I personally keep the permissions set to 000 on my phpMyAdmin directory until I need it, then change it to 755 and it's also behind HTTP Authentication :) Then I change the permissions back to 000 after I'm done. Makes it not possible to access or exploit from the web.
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Elessa

Joined: 2009-10-14
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Posted: Thu, 2009-10-15 00:12

Thank you.

I am currently watching the thread http://gallery.menalto.com/node/91817 because I am one of the two G3 installs that are getting the whitepages on his server. None of my other sites running php/mySQL on the MT servers are having issues.

When I got the whitepage the first time this morning that is when it occurred to me that there isn't an easy backup routine set into the admin page for G3 like I had with G1.

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kn0ck0ut

Joined: 2010-03-06
Posts: 7
Posted: Wed, 2010-03-10 13:17

any module to get backup easy ?
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