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Originally posted by jacobisrael jacobisrael wrote:

Godaddy confirmed that you can't back up the database on Godaddy, and they don't back up the server with the databases on it.

Can I just say that from a hosting point of view, that's ridiculous and a good reason to move.

Most people have backups of their HTML and graphic files on their own computer, it's the fluid data stored server-side that people forget to keep copies of.  It also tends to be mission critical data, so that's what Godaddy should be backing up.
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Originally posted by SMR Group SMR Group wrote:

Originally posted by jacobisrael jacobisrael wrote:

Godaddy confirmed that you can't back up the database on Godaddy, and they don't back up the server with the databases on it.

Can I just say that from a hosting point of view, that's ridiculous and a good reason to move.

Most people have backups of their HTML and graphic files on their own computer, it's the fluid data stored server-side that people forget to keep copies of.  It also tends to be mission critical data, so that's what Godaddy should be backing up.


Move hosts now!
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Originally posted by Mikey Mikey wrote:

Originally posted by SMR Group SMR Group wrote:

Originally posted by jacobisrael jacobisrael wrote:

Godaddy confirmed that you can't back up the database on Godaddy, and they don't back up the server with the databases on it.

Can I just say that from a hosting point of view, that's ridiculous and a good reason to move.

Most people have backups of their HTML and graphic files on their own computer, it's the fluid data stored server-side that people forget to keep copies of.  It also tends to be mission critical data, so that's what Godaddy should be backing up.


Move hosts now!
 
Very true.  Godaddy has been so good in so many other areas that it just wasn't expected that they didn't back up the server [read: pc?] with the databases on it.  That seems to be a major flaw, since it ought to be pretty easy to back it up.  The sql program has an entry for "csv output" and "xml output", but it doesn't seem to be activated.  So, once Enterprise Manager is functional, it will be good for future backups, but it sure seems that this database is lost for good.  Yikes.  What a mess.  Any other ideas on how to salvage some part of it would be greatly appreciated, and thanks again for all the great and timely [almost ); ] inputs.
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It seems that all the data is still in the database, and that there is a way to restore SOME of it in xml.  But the large files just hang up and don't create the xml file.  Also, Enterprise Manager won't work on Godaddy because Godaddy doesn't permit direct access to the database, for security reasons.
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Originally posted by dpyers dpyers wrote:

I'd try the app against the db first. In a 7.x version, I ran a db conversion twice but the db was ok... nothing deleted, just a bunch of error messages saying it couldn't create stuff - because it was already created.
Try running 8.04 wwf against the 8.04 db. nothing to lose !
 
This will probably be the stupidest question you've heard in two weeks, but is there any way at all to go backwards, back to 7.x?  It's clear from the tables that all the data is still there, and just difficult to extract.
 
 
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