[support] Backup and Migrate

[Ryan LeTulle]

Update.php has done the trick for me a couple of times. :)
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On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:

> I had problems with Backup and Migrate because it did not copy all of
> the drupal installation, themes, modules, views, etc and produced
> errors. I did it manually.
> I copied the database so it became an .sql file not a tar.gz or zip
> file.
> I copied all of the Drupal7 installation to the new hard drive space.
> Created the new database with the same name and password as the old
> version, did a mysqlrestore to insert all of the database information.
> It does not  have to have the same database name, username and password
> but you will have to make alterations to the settings.php if it's not
> the same as the old version.
>
> Checked settings.php to see that it pointed to the correct database and
> password.
> Went into mysql> show databases;>show tables; to see that everything was
> in place and comparable to the original.
>
> Then started drupal 7 and it worked as though it was still on the old
> system. I ran update.php to make sure that the database was corrected.
> It works.
> And I did not have to fiddle with versions of modules and themes, etc.
>
> That was my little adventure.
> Roger
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