backing up forms

If I use Akeeba to back up my site, using both zip and jpa file formats, will it back up and save my forms.

_Cindy Barnard

Hi Cindy,

I expect so - if it saves the database tables. Try it and see.

Bob

Akeeba does save the tables, but just this a.m. I accidentally deleted a form. I used the restore button and happen to find a ckbak file from late last year (close enough). But none of the website backups I downloaded to my computer, unzipped, came up with any searches for ckbak.

Or maybe zipped files don't save forms, only the jpa download format through Akeeba. I will obviously need to ask them.

But may I ask you, where within a backup file would I actually find forms I created in ChronoForms?

Hi cicibar,

You won't find any cfbak files; but the forms are saved in the chronoforms database tables and it should be possible to reconstruct them from database backups. You'd need to find the jos_chrono_contact table and each record in that is one form.

There may also be some data in the jos_chrono_contact_plugins and jos_chrono_contact_emails tables. These are linked by the form id in the jos_chrono_contact table.

Bob

Thank you. I will check the database tables backups, and look into those records.
_Cindy