Backup 4.0 on window 7

Management and Administration
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markthepharaoh wrote on Thursday, September 22, 2011:

Hello,

Does the backup function work on windows 7 or I still need to use Jeo’s method?  if I use Jeo’s method do I need to modify the backup that I use for 3.2 or it is the same file system. Thank you.

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bradymiller wrote on Friday, September 23, 2011:

Hi,

Hopefully the backup function (I am assuming you mean Administration->Backup within OpenEMR) is working on windows 7; let us know. Also, in order to answer your question, can you provide a link to Joe’s method?

-brady
OpenEMR

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markthepharaoh wrote on Saturday, September 24, 2011:

Brady,
Thank you.  Joe’s method (Joe Holzer) is at:

http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Backup_Tools

I will let you know about the backup, and yes I meant the Administration->Backup within OpenEMR.

Thanks again.

Mark

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bradymiller wrote on Saturday, September 24, 2011:

Hi,

Hopefully the Administration->Backup works in Windows. But if you use Joe’s method, it is actually simpler now that the 4 directories:
c:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\documents
c:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\edi
c:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\era
c:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\custom\letter_templates

have all been migrated to:
c:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\sites\default\

So, you could essentially just backup that directory, which contains all 4 directories above.
(note you still need to backup the mysql directory)

-brady

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arnabnaha wrote on Saturday, September 24, 2011:

Hi brady…
Just tried the backup feature. it still doesnt work. i am getting the following:

Dumping OpenEMR database…
“C:/xampp/mysql/bin\mysqldump -u “openemr” -p"0p3n3mr” -opt -quote-names -r C:\Windows\TEMP/openemr_web_backup/emr_backup/openemr.sql “openemr”" returned 2:

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sunsetsystems wrote on Sunday, September 25, 2011:

arnabnaha, you need the Archive_Tar class in order for the backup to work with Windows.  That error message indicates it’s not installed.  As I recall that’s part of the PHP Pear package.

Rod
www.sunsetsystems.com

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markthepharaoh wrote on Sunday, October 16, 2011:

Wait so I’m still confused I made sure Archive_Tar is installed with my php setup and it is (along with pear ofcourse)… But my question still remains it just does it but it doesn’t pop a download link… i am now on 4.1.0 and I tested and it still doesnt work what log files should i be looking at and where are they located, and what should i be looking for?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

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bradymiller wrote on Sunday, October 16, 2011:

Hi,

Need to look in the php log file (depends on OS and php package,xampp etc.). Also, are you seeing anything in:
C:\Windows\TEMP\openemr_web_backup

-brady

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markthepharaoh wrote on Tuesday, October 18, 2011:

Brady,

There is a backup file in C:\Windows\TEMP\openemr_web_backup but it is not the right size.  The backup runs it says dumping data and then dumping data tree and it hangs forever there! Thanks for your help.

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bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, October 18, 2011:

Hi,

Try the following:

Remove the php max execution time by placing this php command at top of the openemr/interface/main.backup.php script (below the require_once stuff):
set_time_limit(0);

Then try to run the backup in OpenEMR again.

-brady

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bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, October 18, 2011:

Error above,

Meant to say openemr/interface/main/backup.php for the filename.

-brady