Welcome to RCF - WHF

danrider · Apr 25, 2007

How do you backup EasyMOD?

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

I'm really not quite sure I understand what you are asking. If I understand you correctly, then you are asking how EM creates and stores backups for the MODs that it installs. If I am way off, could you explain a bit more and I will try to shift gears on my explaination???

When you install a MOD using EM, it creates two new sub-folders inside of the MOD folder: backups and processed. The processed folder contains all the phpBB files that were modified while the backups folder contains the files before they were modified. So when you restore EM Backups, EM is copying the files from the backups folder back to your forum. When you install a MOD, EM is copying the files from the processed folder to your forum...

Since the files in the MODs' backups folders are a snapshot of how the phpBB files looked before the MOD was installed, then when Restoring EM Backups, you have to restore the MODs in reverse order that they were installed. IOW, if you install a MOD, then install 5 more MODs, then if you want to restore EM backups on the first MOD, you have to first Restore the Backups for the other 5 MODs that you installed afterwards...

Once you install a MOD, it is a good practice to download the MOD folder back to your PC so that you have a good backup of your modified MOD files. After you have created good backups of the MOD folders containing the processed and backups sub-folders, then you can safely delete the MOD folder from admin/mods. Should you ever need to Restore Backups of a lot of MODs, you can simply upload your MOD backups back to the admin/mods folder, then use EM to Restore the Backups. Hopefully that will never be necessary...

Once I had to restore EM backups for 20 MODs to find a strange problem created by one of them. It wasn't obvious which MOD was causing the problem, so I was prepared to Restore Backups on as many MODs as necessary to pinpoint the MOD causing the problem. Once I pinpointed the problem, I was able to take it to the MOD author who wasn't aware of the bug. He was able to quickly correct the flaw so that it wouldn't affect any others who installed the MOD...

headbang

danrider · Apr 25, 2007

Yes thats what i was asking thanks, how do i restore EM Backups?

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

Restoring EM Backups

If a MOD that you installed with EM hosed your board or you decide that you just don't want it, simply go into EM History in your ACP MOD Center and click on the Details button next to the MOD entry..

On the bottom of the next page, select Restore Backups and press the Go button. Make sure you DON'T select the Remove Record option or you will be forced to manually rolll back the EM backups that were created for you. I will have to walk you through that if need be...

Next you will see a page to confirm eht operation. You would choose Yes:

MODs can only be uninstalled in reverse order that they were installed: FILO (First In, Last Out). So if you installed a MOD, then several others, then decided to remove the first one, you would have to Restore the backups of the other MODs before you could Restore the backups on the first MOD...

Restoring EM Backups (Manual Instructions)

If you are unable to get into the ACP, you will need to use these manual instructions to Restore the EM Backups...

Download the backups folder that EM created for you in the MOD sub-folder found in admin/mods. Strip the .txt extension from each file in every folder in the backups folder. So the resulting file extensions will be php, tpl, css, and cfg. Upload the files back to their proper locations on your board; i.e.

copy backups/admin/*.* to phpBB/admin/*.*
copy backups/includes/*.* to phpBB/includes/*.*
copy backups/language/lang_english/*.* to phpBB/language/lang_english/*.*
copy backups/templates/subSilver/*.* to phpBB/templates/subSilver/*.*
copy backups/*.* to phpBB/*.*

Of course if you have alternate templates and language folders, you will need to copy the files for them as well. I'm referring to phpBB as your forum's root folder in the above copy commands. If your root folder has any other name, just substitute phpBB with the name of your forum's root folder name...

headbang

danrider · Apr 25, 2007

ok Thanks Mate

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

As always, you are quite welcome...

banana