It's not an exciting activity, but backing up your database is essential for the continuous running of your site. Almost everything about your PHP-Nuke site is stored in the database, and if there's some problem with the database, it will surely translate into a big problem on your site. Also, creating a backup of the database is not only to prevent a catastrophe; if you plan to develop your site locally (as we are doing) before uploading to your web host, then you will want a backup of the local database with you. This copy can be directly uploaded to the web host database server so that your site is ready to go without having to go through the entire configuration setup again.
You can create a backup of the database from within PHP-Nuke's administration area. Doing this creates a copy of the database in the same format as the nuke.sql
file that you used to construct the original PHP-Nuke database. This file should then be stored safely, ready to be used in...