By GTEM19889 on

Okay I have spent a few weeks migrating existing non drupal site to drupal into drupal but in order to go live I want to ensure that I have a good backup restore regime in place plus the ability to rebuild the site elsewhere in a hurry if needed.

I made a backup of the sql server and restored this onto my Vista PC running WampServer which appears to have worked.

I then copied all of the files and directories of the drupal site including .htaccess into the root folder of the localhost.

When trying to access the localhost through webbrowser I get the folowing:

Site off-line|Drupal
Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\includes\file.inc on line 902

The second line is repeated several times

I looked on the drupal site ->documentation->Administration Guide [Which states it contains "perform backups" information] but could not find any documentation in there on backups.

Could somebody please point me to how I can backup the complete site in one location and restore it in another location and things to look out for

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Chad_Dupuis commented

A search on this site for "Deprecated: Function ereg" ( http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/Deprecated%3A%20Function%20er... ) would have/will give you the answer.....

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GTEM19889 commented

Okay, one problem fixed, straight into the next problem.

The mysqli error was: Access denied for user 'accountname'@'localhost' (using password: YES).

I have done a search for this on drupal and not much luck yet.

I guess I am asking for simple step by step procedures to follow for migrating the site (surprised this is not in documentation)

Still trying

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GTEM19889 commented

After altering the username and password, I managed to crash the WampServer. I can only assume that this is now happening because the password is correct as changing it to incorrect data brings be back to the previous message Access denied.

I stand by my original request for step by step instructions for migrating backing up and restoring entire systems. From trawling the forum I can tell that many others have experienced similar problems. There even appears to be a module for this.