
Backing Up And Restoring phpBB Database
- Updated On 04/06/2018
- Author : Pradeep Kumar
- Topic : phpBB
- Short URL : https://hellboundbloggers.com/?p=7193
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Currently HBB Forums is powered by phpBB, a open source forum script. Below I mentioned some steps for backing up and restoring your phpBB Database.
I hope this article will be useful to all the newbies having phpBB forums. If you find this simple tutorial useful, share and tweet!
Backing Up Your phpBB Database
- Login to phpBB with your admin account.
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Click on “Go to Administration Control Panel” at the bottom of the page.
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Now go to “Maintenance” tab. [Top]
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[Sidebar] In the Database section, select “Backup”.
If you want to store the backup locally, then select Store file locally. If you want to download the backup, then select Download. Now select Submit. That’s all. The screenshot will be similar to this.

Maintenance | Backup
Restoring Your phpBB Database
If you want to restore your data, the Restore link is also listed under Database in your admin panel.
Click that and select the required file (backup). Select Start Restore.

Maintenance | Restore
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Ms6Labeler
Just wanted to take a second and say hi to everybody. Looking forward to your forum and what everyone has to say.
iPhone App Development
Isn’t that the same way we backup a PHP database. Anyways would like to know if there is any plugin for this.
S.Pradeep Kumar
At present, I’m not sure there is any dude. But you can try some Mods! π
Hami
Good for those who maintain a forum on phbBB. Once should bookmark it for future response..
Domain name registration
Yes, it is useful. Moreover, phpBB is one of the best free forum script on the web today.
Dev | Technshare
Very helpful for those who are using phpbb. π !! Thanks !
Directory Sieve
actually the problem is that these built-in backup and restore does not works when the database becomes a bit big. once you will have a really busy forum with lots of threads/posts/members the database will grow really large. then you will find errors while downloading and restoring backups.
the best way to backup is always from the phpmyadmin…
Samuel
Umm..Sounds cool
Asad Khan
Very simple steps to backup and restore database.It is good to know that phpbb does not require any plugins like wordpress to backup.
Tech Sputter
This content will really help out many people who are having problems i guess π π
Samuel Cramer
I have failed many times trying to restore my forum. The problem was with my backup. Your tutorial is very helpful. Thanks. π
Directory Sieve
yes that can happen, so i keep atleast 3+ backups when it comes to changing hosts… its always safe to keep more than one backup during transfer π