Offset count per picture?

[Oceanwatcher]

I know it is possible to offset count per exhibit. But to get everything correct when I move from one server/domain to another, is it possible to offset count per picture?

[wkitty42]

hunh? why not backup and restore and retain all existing counts?? or am i missing something?

[Oceanwatcher]

Could be... I appreciate your answer.

I was moving everything from a subdomain to a totally different domain. Was not able to keep the SQL databasename or anything else from the old server. So I thought a backup would not work.

Actually, I would appreciate a little more information about how things are backed up. What gets saved, and what happen when you restore it.

[wkitty42]

I was moving everything from a subdomain to a totally different domain. Was not able to keep the SQL databasename or anything else from the old server. So I thought a backup would not work.
i can understand that ;)

Actually, I would appreciate a little more information about how things are backed up. What gets saved, and what happen when you restore it.
to be honest, what i've seen is that it is basically just the data within the database... i don't think that includes anything database specific or site specific like domain names or database filenames but i may be wrong... i've not actually dug into the actual data stored but i have played around and done backups as both text files and to another database and then restored to a testing database... when restoring to a testing database, i've then simply altered the reference to the database, the login and the password in the config and everything has carried right on... the only thing that i do know that you must watch for is to keep the exact same directory tree or else you do have to do some editing of the data to input the new directory names...

since it has also been 2 weeks, i would have thought that someone else, maybe even pekka, would have offered more information on this :(