By Ray Seaman on

I've been diligently following along the great video on upgrading Drupal from Lullabot, and have come across a snag. I successfully backed up the database files (deliciously easy.) However, I'm having problems with the next step of backing up my Drupal 4.7 files.

As the video instructs, I open up a command line and use the "cd" command to get to the folder "directly above" my Drupal folder, that being

C:\apache2triad\htdocs

This works. I'm then told to us the "ls" command to "see the contents of this folder." I'm told by my computer the following:

'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.

What do I do to get 'ls' to work so I can see the contents of the folder and then use the 'tar' command to create a backup?

Thanks for all your help, folks, as always!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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Ray Seaman’s picture

Ray Seaman commented

FYI, I'm upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1.

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drupalnesia commented

Hi, "ls" standfor list and this is Linux command. Since you use Windows, then use "dir" to replace "ls".

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Ray Seaman commented

Not sure if you can answer this (anyone who knows certainly can.) If you just make a backup of the database, do you need to make a back up of the Drupal files? Are they one in the same? Or do you have to do one (backup the SQL database) and then the other (Drupal files)? Thanks.

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drupalnesia commented

Drupal DB uses to store any Drupal inputs and variables. And Drupal files store:
- setting.php
- any uploading files in files/
- any additional modules and themes in sites/all/

then, you better do backup for DB and Files of Drupal.