Recent changes to Backups

Backups modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:41:27 -0000

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 Project Tool Data (tickets, wiki, discussion, blog, etc.) | [Project Data Export](/p/forge/documentation/Project Data Export/)
 SCMs (svn, git, hg) | [rsync](/p/forge/documentation/rsync Backups/)
 File Release System (FRS) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
-User home directory (including Developer web) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
 Project web | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
 Mailing lists | [Mailing list archive backups](/p/forge/documentation/Mailing List Archives/) (mbox files)

Backups modified by SourceForge Support

SourceForge Support — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:42:41 -0000

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 File Release System (FRS) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
 User home directory (including Developer web) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
 Project web | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
-Project database | [mysqldump or phpMyAdmin](MySQL Backups)
 Mailing lists | [Mailing list archive backups](/p/forge/documentation/Mailing List Archives/) (mbox files)

Backups modified by SourceForge Support

SourceForge Support — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 21:12:41 -0000

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 # Backing up Your Data
-SourceForge.net performs routine backups for all of our servers and will restore from these backups in the event of catastrophic server failure (e.g. in the event of equipment failure, datacenter loss, etc.). There is a cost associated with restores from our backup solution. Due to our backup methods, we are unable to do per-project data restores.
+SourceForge.net performs routine backups for all of our servers and will restore from these backups in the event of catastrophic server failure (e.g. in the event of equipment failure, data center loss, etc.). There is a cost associated with restores from our backup solution. Due to our backup methods, we are unable to do per-project data restores.

-We encourage projects to make their own backups, to permit the project to restore data on their own as needed. In each of our service-related site docs we include a reminder to perform backups.
+We encourage projects to make their own backups, to permit the project to restore data on their own as needed. In each of our service-related site docs, we include a reminder to perform backups.

 # Data Backup Methods
 SourceForge.net provides easy-to-use facilities to enable projects to backup all of their data.

Backups modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:54:26 -0000

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 File Release System (FRS) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
 User home directory (including Developer web) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
 Project web | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
-Project database | mysqldump or phpMyAdmin
+Project database | [mysqldump or phpMyAdmin](MySQL Backups)
 Mailing lists | [Mailing list archive backups](/p/forge/documentation/Mailing List Archives/) (mbox files)

Backups modified by SourceForge Support

SourceForge Support — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 04:41:21 -0000

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-[[include ref=in-progress]]
-
 # Backing up Your Data
 SourceForge.net performs routine backups for all of our servers and will restore from these backups in the event of catastrophic server failure (e.g. in the event of equipment failure, datacenter loss, etc.). There is a cost associated with restores from our backup solution. Due to our backup methods, we are unable to do per-project data restores.

Backups modified by

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:40:21 -0000

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 We encourage projects to make their own backups, to permit the project to restore data on their own as needed. In each of our service-related site docs we include a reminder to perform backups.

-Please note that data that users or SourceForge.net administrators "delete" from the SourceForge.net site is merely hidden, but retained for perpetuity. It is not necessary to restore this data if flagged as deleted; contact us for assistance.
-
 # Data Backup Methods
 SourceForge.net provides easy-to-use facilities to enable projects to backup all of their data.

-**Data type / Backup method**
-
-Bazaar / rsync
-CVS / rsync
-Forums (built-in) / XML export
-Git / rsync
-File Release System (FRS) / Download files from the FRS
-Hosted Apps / Hosted apps backup facility
-Mailing lists / Mailing list archive backups (mbox files)
-Mercurial / rsync
-News / XML export
-Project database / mysqldump or phpMyAdmin
-Project web / File management service
-Subversion (SVN) / rsync
-Tracker / XML export
-User home directory (including Developer web) / File management service
+**Data type** | **Backup method**
+--------------|------------------
+Project Tool Data (tickets, wiki, discussion, blog, etc.) | [Project Data Export](/p/forge/documentation/Project Data Export/)
+SCMs (svn, git, hg) | [rsync](/p/forge/documentation/rsync Backups/)
+File Release System (FRS) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
+User home directory (including Developer web) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
+Project web | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
+Project database | mysqldump or phpMyAdmin
+Mailing lists | [Mailing list archive backups](/p/forge/documentation/Mailing List Archives/) (mbox files)

WikiPage Backups modified by

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:34:45 -0000

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+[[include ref=in-progress]]
+
 # Backing up Your Data
 SourceForge.net performs routine backups for all of our servers and will restore from these backups in the event of catastrophic server failure (e.g. in the event of equipment failure, datacenter loss, etc.). There is a cost associated with restores from our backup solution. Due to our backup methods, we are unable to do per-project data restores.