# Backing Up a Radiant Site

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backing-up-a-radiant-site/66082>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [August 23, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backing-up-a-radiant-site/66082 "2006-08-23T05:50:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![pezdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a87d85/32.png) [@pezdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pezdude)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backing-up-a-radiant-site/66082/1 "2006-08-23T05:50:33Z")

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Hi,

I’ve just completed a site with Radiant, and although my little site  
is quite primitive, I got an amazing amount done in a very short time!  
So thanks to John and all the other contributers for their hard work  
on this excellent system!

I now want to back up the site. Although I’m hosted with TextDrive and  
have faith in their stability, ideally I’d like to have a tarball I  
can drop into a fresh install and have a site back up and running  
again. Is this possible? 🙂

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**Author:** ![pezdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a87d85/32.png) [@pezdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pezdude)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backing-up-a-radiant-site/66082/2 "2006-08-23T06:26:36Z")

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On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Dave C. wrote:

> again. Is this possible? 🙂  
> Depends on what kind of database you are using. If you run sqlite3,  
> you could just tar up the Radiant directory (assuming the database is  
> in db/)… otherwise you would need to export your database from  
> mysql or postgresql. I tried playing with the Radiant export function  
> a while ago, but I couldn’t find a way to re-import a site…

Bodhi

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**Author:** ![pezdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a87d85/32.png) [@pezdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pezdude)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backing-up-a-radiant-site/66082/3 "2006-08-23T06:32:38Z")

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Dave C. wrote:

> I now want to back up the site. Although I’m hosted with TextDrive and  
> have faith in their stability, ideally I’d like to have a tarball I  
> can drop into a fresh install and have a site back up and running  
> again. Is this possible? 🙂

Easy import and export aren’t possible just yet. You can get a yaml  
export by hitting /admin/export/, but importing is still very hard. To  
import you must create a template from the export file and read it back  
in through the script/setup\_database script.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)