Backing Up Your Data With cwRsync and sync2nas

One of the most crucial tasks facing an admin is backing up your data. Many admins work very hard at keeping the servers running at peak performance and keeping the software up to date. However, many forget the most important task. Backing up the data. Yes we all sometimes forget to do a daily data backup. I used to forget about backing up the data daily until one of the databases became corrupt and unusable. I had to roll back to data that was over a month old losing hundreds of users and thousands of posts. There are many automated tools to help us with the task. This article will explain how I use rsync for Windows and sync2nas to do a nightly backup of all my data.

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Windows: Installing MYSQL

Now that you have PHP installed it’s time to install mysql. Mysql is the database server of choice for just about all forum software packages that run on PHP enabled servers. Installing mysql and getting it ready for use on your Windows Server is very easy. At the most it shouldn’t take more than an hour or less. Lets get started.

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Choosing and Managing Your Team

Getting people you can trust to help you run your community can be the single biggest problem an admin can have. Promoting users that you can work with is not an easy task. Even harder, as your community grows, is getting all the staff members to work together as a team. With this article I will try to make that task a bit easier. I originally posted this at The Admin Zone in this thread.

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