Backups are tedious. Especially since we have no backup module yet. But believe me, a backup can save you day, so you should really think about it.

Backup of your MySQL database

One way to do a manually backup from the command prompt will be described below.

	Note
	Agraphical web based tool to help you with the tasks described in this section is phpMyAdmin which can be downloaded from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

Start a terminal session (Linux) or command prompt (Windows) and enter the following command:

mysqldump --add-drop-table -a -u username -p database > path/to/backup.sql

You must replace username with the name of a user that can read the tables in the database you use for more.groupware. path/to/backup.sql is the path and name to the file that will be written during backup, e. g. C:\backup\mgwbackup.sql.

If you get bad command or something like that you have to use cd to go to the MySQL bin system folder (e. g. cd C:\mysql\bin) before you run the command again.

After entering the command you have to press the enter key. Input the MySQL password of the user username and press enter yet another time. The backup will be dumped to the given file.

Now you have a backup of the database which can be stored at a safe place. But you should also make a copy of the whole moregroupware folder (cp -R mgwfolder backupfolder if you use Linux or the graphical Explorer if you use Windows).

You must do a folder copy to get a backup of your emails which are stored in modules\webmail2\store, the contents of the files module and the configuration file called config.inc.php.