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Here’s a easy way to keep your firefox extensions backed up. You know all those cool ones you’ve found or discovered by accident and you’d probably have trouble getting them all again after you reinstall Windows?

It’s called FEBE.

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Keep your Firefox extensions after Windows install

You always hear people say ‘make sure you backup your data’. And I assure you, it is a wise piece of advice. Unfortunately you won’t know how valuable it is until you lose your data and don’t have a backup to restore from. I have been lucky as I have not lost data, but always keep multiple backups of my critical data just in case I have failures of any kind.

BUT, do your backups actually work? Have you ever tried to restore from your backups? You certainly don’t want to wait until your data fails, then try and restore from your backup and then find out the supposed ‘backup’ never really worked.

I need to regularly backup my database on a forum that my wife runs. Why? Because if I lose the data, my wife will not understand why something like that can happen, and will have my balls for breakfast.

Note, this will not backup the actual software, only the SQL database. You can use a FTP program to easily backup your forum software.

Auto backup:
Here is a great site that will allow for auto backup of your SQL database. There is even an option to email it to you too.

Manual backup:
Here is a thread from the PHPBB site forums that explains how to do a manual backup, and well as a restore.

Note -

• If you are restoring big SQL databases (ie greater than 2M), get Big Dump.
• If your domain or script path has changed, get Auto Cookies Mod Script.