On 22/10/10 23:00, support-request@drupal.org wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:52:34 -0700 From: Michelle Ziegmannmichelle@media.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [support] Backing up and migrating a drupal site To:support@drupal.org Message-ID:4CC03792.7030600@media.berkeley.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Also, when you restore using Backup-Migrate, make sure all of the files on the server you're migrating to are EXACTLY the same as the one you backed up from. I've found something as little as a different version of a module between sites will blow things up.
You definitely need 2 processes - Backup-Migrate takes care of your database, but also need to migrate all files.
Michelle
Thanks Michelle and everyone. So it seems I need a vanilla install of the same version of Drupal. Then copy all the /sites/all directories & files across to my machine. Install backup_migrate module on my new installation. Point backup_migrate to the .sql backup I downloaded from the server and things [should] work.
Moses mentioned doing a backup of the whole www directory, this is impractical for me for 2 reasons. 1. it's huge and has thousands of files that are of no interest to my Drupal work 2. it would tend to overwrite the /var/www files and system I use on my machine. Instead I did a backup_migrate of the drupal directory
For a fresh install I need a database of the same name and password. I don't know the database password.
Will using backup_migrate simply write to or recreate that new database or will it overwrite all the files that the drupal fresh install created? I suspect it will overwrite and this is where there could be a conflict between a fresh install and the server copy files.
Thanks Roger