Oct 4th, 2009, 11:21 AM
Yeah, this is one of those things that's been on my List o' Things To Do for so long it's kind of embarrassing.
Dumping and restoring the DB *is* simple, if you use a tool like phpMyAdmin. That lets you download the entire database whenever you want. Recovering from that backup is just a matter of deleting the existing tables and running the SQL. I actually do it all the time to create identical copies of my Form Tools databases for testing on different systems.
As for documentation, I've never done it yet because I've always planned to write a module to do this... just haven't found the time yet.
Good question!
- Ben
Dumping and restoring the DB *is* simple, if you use a tool like phpMyAdmin. That lets you download the entire database whenever you want. Recovering from that backup is just a matter of deleting the existing tables and running the SQL. I actually do it all the time to create identical copies of my Form Tools databases for testing on different systems.
As for documentation, I've never done it yet because I've always planned to write a module to do this... just haven't found the time yet.
Good question!
- Ben