Hello Dai,

> After reading the manual and running backup it would seem it is geared
> for Linux not windows.

Is the netbook that you're using as a Newscoop server running Windows?

> So how would I go about doing a backup in a
> windows environment?

If you are doing the backup through the web browser it should be exactly
the same, Windows or GNU/Linux. Are you still able to log into the admin
interface?

> There seems to be a conflict between the manual and
> upgrade reame file. this what upgrade.txt says "Upgrading from Newscoop
> 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x and 3.4.x:
>
> Drop the new sources over the existing install, open a browser and make
> a request for the publication home page:
> http://[site_name]

That's the same method as mentioned in the manual here, under 'Running
the upgrade script' at the end of the page:

http://new.flossmanuals.net/newscoop/ch004_backup-and-upgrad e.html

The main difference is that in the manual, we take the user step-by-step
through the process of making a backup first, which is best practice for
any Newscoop or CMS upgrade. Also the readme doesn't explicitly mention
that you have to open the upgrade.php page.

> The upgrade will be performed automatically when you make the first
> request to the publication site or to the Newscoop admin interface."
>
> This did not work in my netbook

We'll have to find out why :-)

Cheers!

Daniel

Hello Dai,

> tried the backup it is not working for me on all my machines including
> Ubuntu. just tried it from the University computer on my usb hardrive
> still no joy in doing the backup.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env php
>
> Newscoop Backup Utility
> -----------------------
>
> ERROR!
> Unable to create the default backup directory.
> Please run this script as 'www-data' or as 'root'.

This is how I use the backup script on Ubuntu, with Newscoop installed
to the /var/lib/newscoop/ directory. It saves the tarball to the current
working directory by default, i.e. /home/daniel/ in this case:

$ sudo /var/lib/newscoop/bin/newscoop-backup

Newscoop Backup Utility
-----------------------
Backup script version: 3.5.1 "Bea"
Backing up newscoop
* Backing up the database...done.
* Backing up the templates...done.
* Backing up images...done.
* Backing up file attachments...done.
* Backing up configuration files...done.
* Creating tarball...done.
* Cleaning up...done.

Backup saved to file:
/home/daniel/backup-newscoop-2011-03-08-14-35-13.tar.gz

Perhaps you are using the --default-dir option which would save the
backup file to the backup/ directory underneath the installation
directory (which is /var/lib/newscoop/backup/ in my case). That action
would require root or sudo powers to write the file because the
installation directory /var/lib/newscoop is outside of my personal home
directory.

Cheers!

Daniel

/var/lib/newscoop/ directory no good I'm using xampp in all my machines including Ubuntu.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel James" <newscoop-support@lists.sourcefabric.org>
To: dai7261@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, 8 March, 2011 2:44:07 PM
Subject: [newscoop-support] Re: upgrade failiure

Hello Dai,

> tried the backup it is not working for me on all my machines including
> Ubuntu. just tried it from the University computer on my usb hardrive
> still no joy in doing the backup.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env php
>
> Newscoop Backup Utility
> -----------------------
>
> ERROR!
> Unable to create the default backup directory.
> Please run this script as 'www-data' or as 'root'.

This is how I use the backup script on Ubuntu, with Newscoop installed
to the /var/lib/newscoop/ directory. It saves the tarball to the current
working directory by default, i.e. /home/daniel/ in this case:

$ sudo /var/lib/newscoop/bin/newscoop-backup

Newscoop Backup Utility
-----------------------
Backup script version: 3.5.1 "Bea"
Backing up newscoop
* Backing up the database...done.
* Backing up the templates...done.
* Backing up images...done.
* Backing up file attachments...done.
* Backing up configuration files...done.
* Creating tarball...done.
* Cleaning up...done.

Backup saved to file:
/home/daniel/backup-newscoop-2011-03-08-14-35-13.tar.gz

Perhaps you are using the --default-dir option which would save the
backup file to the backup/ directory underneath the installation
directory (which is /var/lib/newscoop/backup/ in my case). That action
would require root or sudo powers to write the file because the
installation directory /var/lib/newscoop is outside of my personal home
directory.

Cheers!

Daniel

netbook I'm using is win7 mowes portable for web server. Also got xampp web server on it but, not tried the xampp server version as, I'm using it for practice. I'm running the same setup in virtualbox under xp (host Ubuntu). Ubuntu upgraded ok with a cut and paste job with the files, then running uprade.php but, same process in mowes portable (net book) just hangs.

hi

Quote:

1, running back up according to manual fails.

on windows? Yes, the scripts in bin folder doesn't work in standard windows environment. Scripts requires unix tools like bash, tar and mysqldump utility. In linux environment the scripts usually works w/o issue. Otherwise you can try to backup from admin gui instead of command line

Quote:

2, Copy and paste of files, also fails.

what did exactly happen?

Andrey Podshivalov wrote on Thu, 10 March 2011 20:36

hi

Quote:

2, Copy and paste of files, also fails.

what did exactly happen?

Upgrading the database from version 2.0.x...
Then it just freezes.

This happens

3.5 to 3.5.1

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrey Podshivalov" <newscoop-support@lists.sourcefabric.org>
To: dai7261@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, 11 March, 2011 10:16:41 AM
Subject: [newscoop-support] Re: upgrade failiure

hmm, which version you are trying to upgrade?