Time to do a backup takes ages....

[3000rpm]

every night before we close we backup our actinic catalog by doing...

file
snapshot
export site

but every time we do this it takes a very long time and crashes a lot, is there any easier or better way to backup site or stop this taking so long and crashing please?

[pinbrook]

try compacting the database and run the export snapshot again

[Duncan Rounding]

Try highlighting the 'Home' at the top of the Content Tree before compacting or creating a snapshot.

[RuralWeb]

Common problem - the above should sort it. If not there are several threads on the subject

[jont]

it takes a very long time

How long is long? How many products in your site? What PC spec do you have?

[3000rpm]

thank you for replies....

I will try to select the home before i backup, how do you compress the database? I remember i had a tool for this before or is this included within actinic?

[3000rpm]

sorry and jont it takes around 15 mins and we have around 300 products.

[los_design]

sorry and jont it takes around 15 mins and we have around 300 products.

15 minutes for 300 products?

Sounds like something is amiss.

Follow the above info, post your system spec and let us know if there is any improvement.

[Duncan Rounding]

On the menu.
Housekeeping - Compact Databases

[los_design]

On the menu.
Housekeeping - Compact Databases

Whooooooooosh with the speed of light, Duncan to the point

On a different note, I take it you are not linking to an external db?

[3000rpm]

No we dont link to anything external, I will try all above and hopefully will sort this out.