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Hi. I am about to transfer our site to a new server.

I've gone into admin and selected Content Management > Import/Export and selected all sections for Export (Member Data, Category Data, Forum Data, Message Data). What now? Do I need to FTP this backup data off our web site? If so, where do I find it?

Also, will this back-up remember our style (colour scheme, layout etc)?

Thanks.
Nath.

You should follow the directions found at https://www.ubbcentral.com/support/docs/ubbclassic/UBB6_backup_transfer.html

The Import/Export is NOT an effective backup utility.

Nath,

I've done this multiple times, and even moved my UBB from a Linux box to Windows without any problems. It's not a small board either, 5400 members and about 200,000 threads.

You should be fine <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I just tried to do this and got this error under the FYI tab:

An uncaught exception has occurred while processing your request.

More information may be available on the Debug Information tab.

Clicking the Debug Info tab displays this info:

StandardHTML stack trace:
at /www/lamarmo/ubb/Templates/cp2_common.pl line 96

main::StandardHTML called at /www/lamarmo/ubb/Templates/cp2_common.pl line 131

main::StandardHTML2('An uncaught exception has occurred while processing your request...') called at /www/lamarmo/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/cp2_lib.cgi line 756

main::CatchException('Fatal error:^J^JNo such file or directory opening importexport at cp.cgi line 404.^J', 'SCALAR(0x818c5c8)') called at cp.cgi line 499

main::__ANON__('Fatal error:^J^JNo such file or directory opening importexport at cp.cgi line 404.^J', 'SCALAR(0x818c5c8)') called at Modules/Error.pm line 298

eval {...} called at Modules/Error.pm line 294

Error::subs::run_clauses('HASH(0x84eeabc)', 'Fatal error:^J^JNo such file or directory opening importexport at ...', undef, 'ARRAY(0x818fdbc)') called at Modules/Error.pm line 386

Error::subs::try('CODE(0x81caf00)', 'HASH(0x84eeabc)') called at cp.cgi line 500


Extra information:

Fatal error:

No such file or directory opening importexport at cp.cgi line 404.

Is this becasue of all the hacks I have? And where will it export it to? My server or my hard drive? I would assume somewhere offsite since it is a backup utility.

Thanks

As I posted before, Import/Export is NOT an effective backup utility. If you are wanting to backup your UBB, you would be better off compressing your cgi-bin and noncgi directories via Shell or FTPing them down.

According to the error you posted, you are missing your /noncgi/importexport directory

English please. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

If you want to backup your UBB, follow the instructions in the Backup/Transfer guide previously posted.