I have a Cron that runs every night and preforms a MySQL db dump. Are there advantages/disadvantages to your way over mine?

Just out of curiosity, why delete all templates except the stylesheet?

I added in a new index template for each blog showing the templates for each blog - using Brenna's ShowTemplates. I have far too many blogs with millions of templates to go back and link them to files! ;)

And this is great - I don't have to feel guilty now every time I ask someone if they've got a recent export! ;)

Hey, I figured out a way to have the backup directory zipped automatically, and ready for download. If you add this as a cron job (fixing the paths obviously):

zip -r ~/public_html/backup.zip ~/public_html/backup

I've really gone to town today, I went through and created backup blogs for both my installations, and have them "exporting" all of their entries and templates to the same directory. I also did your config listing thingy and set up a page with all the relevant links to the various scripts and zip file. I now have a little bookmark with my daily and weekly tasks, and it's great!

So, thank you, thank you, thank you! I was getting worried because the last couple of mySQL dumps I've tried have timed out, and I'd resorted to doing tables at a time! And as great as Multiple Blog Suite is, I'm too lazy for all that "save file as" business for my multiple blogs. :)

And to have the export emailed to me:

metasend -b -t email@domain.com -s Backup -m application/zip -f ~/public_html/backup.zip -S 1500000

where Backup is the subject of the email, and the 1500000 is the number of bytes before the email is split into parts. Set it higher than the size of your backup.zip. :)

Oh, Maddy, thank you for those last two pieces I wanted (zip and email)!!

I prefer the linking method because I won't ever have to do copy-and-paste of my templates that way. Though I think I like having the index templates you mentioned as a means of viewing all my templates at once. I may go in and do that just for kicks.

(And I can also use your zip and email for all those template folders, yay!)

I'm obsessive about having a variety of backup methods: in case one fails, there's always another. =)

Oh, and a single page for all these options is a great idea as well. I think I have a project for this weekend. ;-)

Thanks for the ideas. I've attempted to get this to work with a cron job...my first ever attempt with cron jobs. We'll see how it works.

hey i tried this and all im getting in my txt file is </MTOtherBlog>.

ive run rebuild.cgi and it works

Did you install the MTOtherBlog plugin?

it worked beautifully now thanks