ForumUp now has backups in a preliminary stage.

At this time, the conditions are as follows:

You must pay to remove advertisements for 700,001 or more page views. You pay via PayPal in the Admin Control Panel > ForumUp.

On ForumUp.ro it costs 10EUR for 100.000 page views of no ads. So to get the backup feature, you will need to order 8 sets of "no ads" in order to have 700,001 page views of "no ads". Once the page views of "no ads" drops below 700,000, the backup feature will not work, so you do need to have many more than 700,000 "no ads" page views available, since every time someone goes to your forum, it deducts a "no ad" page view.

These conditions are preliminary and will be adapted in the future, with the intention for the price to be lowered.

You will receive a file with your forum's tables. The data is portable to a non-ForumUp PHP / MySQL database. It cannot be used to change from one ForumUp domain to another ForumUp domain, nor can it be uploaded to ForumUp servers in the event that parts of your forum got deleted. If you intend to keep your forum with ForumUp, the backup is of no use to you.

In addition, subscribing to 'View without Ad's', allows you to use the HTML Heater and Footer, available in the Admin Panel > ForumUp page. Of course, if you are planning to move your forum to another host, that is irrelevant to you.

If you buy "remove ads" and get the ads removed, you cannot ask for a refund because you have a problem with the backup, errors or other questions about it. Backup is not easy. Backups can have problems on transaction and can need your work on it (sql. server, system, operation system, mysql etc). Backup can require more than one week of elaboration.

Below are the instructions for getting the backup, as written by Webmaster Raulken. If you have problems with the backup, make a post for Raulken on the .com support forum, at

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Backup Steps

FIRST STEP: confirm email owner (You can try only 1 time a day for security reason!)

1) Before all login into admin panel

2) You must be the owner and your email owner must be active because the server sends a special link (remember login into admin panel before click)

3) after click on link you see: >> another click and continue

II STEP: download backup (try to use a fast internet connection for big database, but DO NOT USE internet accelerator for download like getright etc.)

1) select "Full backup"
2) Gzip compress file to YES
3) press START BACKUP and WAIT, not other click (Your download will start shortly; please wait until it begins.)
4) simple download, not use accelerator or you block download and will be banned!!!


III STEP open the file:
1) phpbb_db_backup.sql.gz use winrar -> phpbb_db_backup.sql
2) rename phpbb_db_backup.sql to phpbb_db_backup.sql.tar
3) use anothet time winrar and extract phpbb_db_backup.sql

NOW YOU HAVE FINISHED with ForumUp but start a new big problems:
IMPORT INTO YOUR MYSQL
(An advanced user can import into any type of database, staff of ForumUp do not support this.)

known problems:
mysql are in:
Code:

character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
| collation_connection | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci |


Avatars are lost, but very easy for each user to download and upload into your server.

ForumUp will delete the forum from ForumUp's database after it is not used for a period of time.

ForumUp will delete your forum if you have a link on the main ForumUp.nl page at

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and did not notify on staff forum your migration for ForumUp to hide your forum's link from the main homepage.

ForumUp reserves the right to delete your forum after migration at any moment.