====== How to backup Feng Office ======

This page is about how to backup your Feng Office installation manually. If you want to learn about the backup plugin that allows you to create backups from the [[administration panel]], please see the page [[backup_plugin|Backup (Plugin)]].

===== What needs to be backed up? =====

  * The folder where Feng Office is installed
  * The database being used by Feng Office

===== What information do you need =====

  * The path to your Feng Office installation (e.g. /var/www/feng)
  * The database connection information used by Feng Office. You can find it in your 'config/config.php' file.
    * database (DB_NAME)
    * host (DB_HOST, usually localhost)
    * username (DB_USER)
    * password (DB_PASS) 

===== How to back up Feng Office =====

  * Create a folder where you will place the backup (e.g. /path/to/backup)
<code>  mkdir /path/to/backup</code>
  * Copy Feng Office's folder to the backup folder
<code>  cp -R /var/www/feng /path/to/backup</code>
  * Create a dump of Feng Office's database. MySQL includes a command called mysqldump. You can use that command or some other tool like phpMyAdmin or MySQL GUI Tools. Here we will see the first two:
A) //mysqldump// (replace words between brackets for the correct values)
<code>  mysqldump -h [host] -u [username] -p [database] > /path/to/backup/db.sql</code>
B) //phpMyAdmin//
      - Select Feng Office's database
      - Click "Export"
      - Select to export to "SQL"
      - Select to export the "Structure" as well as the "Data"
      - Select to "Save as file"
      - Click on "Go" and save the generated file to /path/to/backup/db.sql
  * Optionally, compress the contents of the backup folder to save some disk space.

===== How to restore a backup =====

  * Copy the backed up installation folder to your web server
<code>  cp -R /path/to/backup/feng /var/www</code>

  * Execute the backup database script (db.sql). You can do this with the mysql command, in phpMyAdmin or MySQL GUI Tools.\\ 
A) //mysql command//
<code>  mysql -h [host] -u [user] -p [database] < /path/to/backup/db.sql</code>

B) //phpMyAdmin//
  - Select Feng Office's database
  - Click "Import"
  - Choose the database script created on backup (/path/to/backup/db.sql)
  - Click "Go"