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A quick overview of this guide:
  • Good practice to backup your database every day.
  • Website's should be backed up as well but on less frequent basis (unless you are making core changes).

The article assumes you have:
  • A MyBB forum (images in the article concern backing up a MyBB database)
  • Perl enabled.
  • Able to create cron jobs
  • Access to cPanel
  • FTP client

This is part of an on-going series of tutorials I'm working on to educate new forum admins and increase the quality of new MyBB powered communities.

There are people not using MyBB to it's fullest potential and it's something I would like to do to share what I know/learned while operating and administrating a "big" forum.

More articles will come soon Cool
Is it possible to send backups to Google Drive automatically?