note:This backup routine works only if you are logged in as ADMIN

This page has more technical details than may seem necessary. We apologize. We include them because we believe that backing up your data is so critical.

Download ZIP files of database

 ZIP Snapshot : contains only the latest versions

 ZIP Dump : contains all archived versions

These links lead to zip files*, generated on the fly, which contain the most recent versions of all pages in your RapidWeb. You will be prompted to save the zip file to your local computer. If you want to view/restore pages from the zip file, you will need WinZip (PC) or StuffIt Expander (MAC) to extract and view pages from the zip file.

(*The pages are stored, one per file, as MIME (RFC2045) e-mail (RFC822) messages.)

Backup/Restore of Pages

Here you can backup or restore pages of your site into a server directory of your choice. (Note: The pages are not located on your local computer, as in the Zip option but on our server.)

Backup

%%ADMIN-INPUT-dumpserial-Backup_serialized_pages_to%%

In this example, "yourdomain" would be your domain name without the last part (.com, .net, .org, etc...)

/home/username/data/MM-DD-YY

Append the date to the string like this:
/home/username/data/06-07-01

Then you'll have a backup folder created for that date. The backup data will be stored in a secure area of the site.

Pages will be written out as "serialized" strings of a PHP associative array, meaning they will not be human readable. If the directory does not exist the RapidWeb will try to create one for you. Ensure that your server has write permissions to the directory!

Restore

%%ADMIN-INPUT-loadserial-Load_serialized_pages_from%%

If you have backed up a set of pages from RapidWeb, you can reload them here. Note that pages in your database will be overwritten; thus, if you backed up your TextFormattingRules when you load it from this form it will overwrite the one in your database now. If you want to be selective just delete the pages from the directory you don't want to load. (You'll need to do this via an FTP program.