Porting Database content

manulekamanuleka
edited May 2008 in Science & Tech
i'm currently looking at porting my Coppermine Photo Gallery to another server (site), the other host/server runs CPanel11 with Coppermine Photo Gallery as well... i'm guessing the main thing to focus on is the database, i'm not sure....

anyone give me some directions on tackling this?

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2008
    you'll need to know what kind of database it is, and what kind of access you have to it.

    Worst case scenario: your hosting company sucks and they won't give you access to the DB. You'll need to file a support ticket to have them give you a plaintext dump of it - i'm going to assume that since it's cpanel it's a MySQL database. You'll need to do a mysqldump or a database bkp using cpanel (I'm not familiar with cpanel, I know in Plesk you can do this).

    The other trick is importing the DB into your new host.

    This is called a migration - my old company did this professionally. It's usually not easy :-/
  • manulekamanuleka
    edited May 2008
    thanks primesuspect... i'm gonna look into to cpanel and see if it has any backup tools... and yes its mysql...
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