Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

[William Davis]

I need a method to Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

I don't know exactly what this backs up, but Mark Hood suggested to back up your existing framework under:

User Interface > Frameworks

I also have a ticket in with customer support asking that same question, and whatever they respond to me, I will post here as well.

[William Davis]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

Thanks. However, I had previously asked them, and they told me to copy and paste each page sections into a text file. I was hoping for something like at least Dreamweaver export, etc...

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

I had previously asked them, and they told me to copy and paste each page sections into a text file.

Thanks for the heads up.

Sure hope there is some way to do that in the Miva admin via one click. Would be a pain to have to navigate through each page and have to copy the latest template.

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

Mark,

We have a free Backup module, I thought it was up on the App Store, but I think it's still in queue to get posted. If you contact support they'll email it to you.

Otherwise you can use the Page/Import Export and/or Framework. All of the above is also not the worst idea.

[William Davis]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

Mark,

We have a free Backup module, I thought it was up on the App Store, but I think it's still in queue to get posted. If you contact support they'll email it to you.

Otherwise you can use the Page/Import Export and/or Framework. All of the above is also not the worst idea.

Rick thanks for jumping in the middle of your holiday shopping :) As you know we are new to MV9, I searched all over and could not find in our MV9 Dev site an option to export Pages to text file, not only to backup, but to facilitate the copying and pasting of conditional statements from old framework to new Suivant ReadyTheme. Thus a text file(s) seems ideal without having to constantly reinstalling framework, unless I am missing something.

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

Yeah the Page Import/Export (which used to be it's own Tab in 5.5) is now just "baked in" to the UI.

Hopefully this screen shot is big enough, but under Pages, select any Pages you want to Export (or Import) and click the appropriate button. You set the path for Import/Export on the Settings Tab of the User Interface Section.

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[William Davis]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

Thanks, Rick! One problem though, the system flashed Page was exported successfully too fast, but it did not indicate where. MM4.24 would display path where file was exported to and the message was permanently displayed. Remember, I'm new to MV9.

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

One problem though, the system flashed Page was exported successfully too fast, but it did not indicate where.

I just ran mine, and it looks like they were exported to:

/httpdocs/editable_templates/[your_store_code]/mm5

where the token "your_store_code stands for your store's code.

Hope this helps.

[William Davis]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

I just ran mine, and it looks like they were exported to:

/httpdocs/editable_templates/[your_store_code]/mm5

where the token "your_store_code stands for your store's code.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, but it looks like our dev site was setup differently. We dont have a /mm5 folder after the store code.

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

Thanks, but it looks like our dev site was setup differently. We dont have a /mm5 folder after the store code.

Ahh... I guess the path was like that for my store because it is a live site, not a dev store.
I would give this a shot: got to:

User Interface > Settings

Then scroll to the VERY bottom of the page and you might see something like:

Template Import/Export Settings

And hopefully it will have the full path to the folder with the templates.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

Thanks. However, I had previously asked them, and they told me to copy and paste each page sections into a text file. I was hoping for something like at least Dreamweaver export, etc...

Did they say why using a framework would not work? That has been the method that I use.

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

You can use a framework too, we were just discussing all backup methods.

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

Out of curiosity...

Is the framework save in the DB? Or is it save to html files (the way that the export pages function works)?

I like the export pages for being able to look into the old code locally and then copy and paste anything that needs to be added (like the various toolkit calls).

[Brennan]

Re: Backup or Export ALL Pages prior to installing Suivant ReadyTheme?

The framework export exports all pages to a single pkg (package) file. This file lives on the server and is not in the database. It is a tar file and can be unzipped if needed to view the raw pages but that is not how it was intended to be used. You're better off leaving it as a single file so it can be easily be re-imported.