UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Im getting a new host...how to backup all ubb data and lose nothing?

Im hoping someone can help me out here, im getting a new host tommrow morning, now my board has a few hacks installed and i have about 45 members and 600 posts (site aint opened yet)

How can i back all these data up and make it exactly how it is on my current host, on my new host.

Anyone know, or am i dreaming agian?

just download all the files making sure to keep dir structure. Reupload to your new host and once uploaded go into your cp and change the absolute paths and such, if you have a hack or two that have the absolute paths coded into them you might have to go threw and edit it to reflect the path on your new host.

Get your server admin to login to your folder where the Members directory is and type

tar -cvzf Members.tar.gz Members

then into the folder where the UBB cgi files are

tar -cvzf Cgi.tar.gz *

then into the non cgi folder and type

tar -cvzf UBB.tar.gz *

this is presuming you have telnet access or they do.

then download the .tar.gz files and re-upload them to new host then ask the new server admins to type

tar -xvzf Members.tar Members

etc etc with all folders
then its a case of CHMOD all of them

u might have some problems with owners and
CHOWN Username *

might have to be used.

Hope this helps.