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mmedia
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14th July 2011
Hello, all! I'm trying to avoid the BackupBuddy forums as the search functionality has much to be desired and the website itself is dated...So I'm hoping to get some help from the wonderful members here! :)
I have BackupBuddy installed on our network, however I'm not 100% positive on what exactly it's backing up. I've seen conflicting information posted here in the forums. If I network activate it, and then individually set it up for each of the sites, is the file created only a back up of the individual site? Or, should I only active it on the main site and it will back up absolutely everything?
Hello, all! I'm trying to avoid the BackupBuddy forums as the search functionality has much to be desired and the website itself is dated...So I'm hoping to get some help from the wonderful members here! :)
I have BackupBuddy installed on our network, however I'm not 100% positive on what exactly it's backing up. I've seen conflicting information posted here in the forums. If I network activate it, and then individually set it up for each of the sites, is the file created only a back up of the individual site? Or, should I only active it on the main site and it will back up absolutely everything?
As far as I've seen, BackupBuddy is still not multisite compatible, meaning that it can't backup individual sites within a network.
What it does, from what I've seen, is it backs up the entire database and/or various crucial folders like /wp-content/.
Personally, I've used it to backup an entire multisite (network activated in this case), and in that sense I found it "compatible" but I've not used it to backup a sub-site in that network and to my knowledge that's still not possible.
Thanks for the response David. From what I gathered, that is what I thought it did (back-up the entire network). This is fine for our needs. I do need it to do a full back-up. I just wanted to confirm that it's successfully ran a complete backup on a multi-site. I'm having our database developer review and compare the back-up file to actual tomorrow, just to 100% verify, but I wanted input here as well.
If I install this on the main site, it's safe to say that it will backup everything?
Just chiming in here as I've used BackupBuddy successfully on multi-site installs as well.
If I install this on the main site, it's safe to say that it will backup everything?
Well, it's safe to say that it has worked for several of us thus far. Your best bet is to always test it out a couple times up front and continually thereafter to ensure the integrity of the backups. Murphy's Law is always in effect and nothing's completely 'fool proof' ya know :)
Still, does work for me and for others, so I'd say give it a shot!
I've been using BackupBuddy on numerous stand-alone sites and one multisite. I have only tried to restore or migrate a standalone site and it works beautifully for that. It backs up my multisite easily but I have never tried to restore or migrate the multisite. I've just been hoping that it works as they claim it does. Backing up individual sites separately can be done from within the word press control panel by the site user.
My question is whether BackupBuddy will work with Multi-DB?
If there's anybody else interested in this feature, please post it to that forum thread. Enough support might get the attention of their developers to support it.
have posted on their forum as suggested. Just wanted to ask whether there is any progress on this issue? Did you somehow get BackupBuddy to work with Multi-DB? Thanks!
Responses (7)
WPMU DEV Fanatic — 14th July 2011 #
Hi mmedia,
As far as I've seen, BackupBuddy is still not multisite compatible, meaning that it can't backup individual sites within a network.
What it does, from what I've seen, is it backs up the entire database and/or various crucial folders like /wp-content/.
Personally, I've used it to backup an entire multisite (network activated in this case), and in that sense I found it "compatible" but I've not used it to backup a sub-site in that network and to my knowledge that's still not possible.
Cheers,
David
Member — 14th July 2011 #
Thanks for the response David. From what I gathered, that is what I thought it did (back-up the entire network). This is fine for our needs. I do need it to do a full back-up. I just wanted to confirm that it's successfully ran a complete backup on a multi-site. I'm having our database developer review and compare the back-up file to actual tomorrow, just to 100% verify, but I wanted input here as well.
If I install this on the main site, it's safe to say that it will backup everything?
Sales & Support Lead — 14th July 2011 #
Hiya mmedia,
Just chiming in here as I've used BackupBuddy successfully on multi-site installs as well.
Well, it's safe to say that it has worked for several of us thus far. Your best bet is to always test it out a couple times up front and continually thereafter to ensure the integrity of the backups. Murphy's Law is always in effect and nothing's completely 'fool proof' ya know :)
Still, does work for me and for others, so I'd say give it a shot!
Member — 2nd December 2011 #
I've been using BackupBuddy on numerous stand-alone sites and one multisite. I have only tried to restore or migrate a standalone site and it works beautifully for that. It backs up my multisite easily but I have never tried to restore or migrate the multisite. I've just been hoping that it works as they claim it does. Backing up individual sites separately can be done from within the word press control panel by the site user.
My question is whether BackupBuddy will work with Multi-DB?
Member — 20th December 2011 #
At the moment they do not support Multi-DB. Argh!
http://ithemes.com/forum/topic/20682-using-backupbuddy-with-wpmudevs-multi-db/page__hl__databases__fromsearch__1
If there's anybody else interested in this feature, please post it to that forum thread. Enough support might get the attention of their developers to support it.
Member — 24th January 2012 #
Member — 24th January 2012 #
have posted on their forum as suggested. Just wanted to ask whether there is any progress on this issue? Did you somehow get BackupBuddy to work with Multi-DB? Thanks!
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