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Can we make the jump from 1.3.9sr2 to 1.3.10rc3 without doing rc1 and rc2? And since 9sr2 doesn't do a back up of the DB has anyone had a problem with the upgrade?

Sure, why not?


Huh?

bye, Dirk

I have done 2 backup and get this

geeklog_db_backup_2004_11_10.sql 0 Bytes
geeklog_db_backup_2004_10_07.sql 0 Bytes

Total number of backups: 2

I seem to remember reading that there was a problem with the back up with sr2. I have done one back up manually but don't remember how I did it. I think I used phpmyadmin. I have had to rebuiled about 50 static pages once so far because of no back up.

sr2 did backup fine.

Did you have your backup directory CHMOD to 777?

Sam

Windows, yeah it has write access.

The problem of 0 byte backups is not specific to any Geeklog version. It has to do with permissions on the server (The webserver / PHP calling an external application which in turn wants to write into a file / directory often owned by the webserver ...).

If you can't figure it out, phpMyAdmin has a backup option. Or try out this plugin.

bye, Dirk

I am using a command line to back up about 20 databases which seems to work ok. It really shouldn't have any issues writing to any directory since I am sitting right here at the server.

Here is the commmand line in a bat file (db_dump.bat) which I run in the mysql bin directory.

mysqldump geeklog > geeklog.sql
mysqldump geeklog2 > geeklog2.sql
mysqldump member > member.sql
etc
etc

So now that I have a good backup I guess I can upgrade to 1.3.10rc3.

The problem isn't you having write access to the backups directory, it's your web process. Are you using IIS or apache?



Why not go with 1.3.10 final?

Oh didn't see it thanks, now I do. Thanks

We have that nice geeklog-announce mailing list just for that, btw.

bye, Dirk

DUH!!!! In comparing configs from 1.3.9 and 1.3.10 I now realize why my BU isn't workings, possibly because I didn't set the path. DOLT!