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Is it possible to back up your entire website using an ftp program, by simply selecting all of folders/files and downloading them in to a folder on your computer? Then to restore the site simply upload all of the folders/files to your website's empty directory on the hosting server?
I am asking for two reasons:
1. A lot of work goes into creating the TTG website and it would be nice to have a backup.
2. If you want to switch to a different hosting provider, then it would be easy to transfer your site to their server by uploading all of the folder/files into the root directory of your website on their server.
Am I missing something or would the above work?
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Lightroom IS your backup.
Your output from the Web module should all be saved as templates.
Your images should all be in collections.
If you're blogging, see WordPress documentation about how to backup and restore your database and /wp-content assets.
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Lightroom IS your backup.
Your output from the Web module should all be saved as templates.
Your images should all be in collections.
If you're blogging, see WordPress documentation about how to backup and restore your database and /wp-content assets.
Yes, I do understand the points you are making. I backup my TTG web templates and the Lightroom Database, plus all of my photo files are double backed up (on site and off site). So I can recreate my site, but I was just wondering if the method I outline in my first post would work since it would save me time recreating the website. I am in particular considering using a different hosting service and it would make it easy to transition to a new hosting server if what I proposed would work.
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If I remember correctly, my transfer from GoDaddy to Bluehost was rather painless. I think that all I needed to do, after obtaining Bluehost hosting and before terminating GoDaddy's, was to change the nameservers to Bluehost's and the transfer was just taken care of.
Of course, I still needed to change server paths for phplugins, and export/upload those pages that were affected. (Actually, just the index.php, mobile.php, and any template files)
So if you're using phplugins, it won't be a matter of simply uploading backed up files, there will be exporting involved as well.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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If I remember correctly, my transfer from GoDaddy to Bluehost was rather painless. I think that all I needed to do, after obtaining Bluehost hosting and before terminating GoDaddy's, was to change the nameservers to Bluehost's and the transfer was just taken care of.
Of course, I still needed to change server paths for phplugins, and export/upload those pages that were affected. (Actually, just the index.php, mobile.php, and any template files)So if you're using phplugins, it won't be a matter of simply uploading backed up files, there will be exporting involved as well.
My site does not use phplugings. But back to my original thought, download all files and folders to backup and then upload to restore. Would this work?
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I don't know, I suppose so. But you likely won't even need to do that. The new hosting company may do all that for you by simply changing nameservers.
You could always try running a limited test in a subdomain.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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I have done that exact procedure several times. I just copied all the pertinent website files under in the Public.html folder and used filezilla to download and up load. I later found out that Ipower does a daily backup and I could have restored from their backup as well. site as well.
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