Any help appreciated, two issues I am wondering about;
A few months ago I (thought) I saved correctly my site through Bluehost provider via FTP.
Last week apparently it got corrupted (not by me) and I had several bad pages.
My backup was just the Public_Html folder as I was told thats the folder that has all of my site files, however apparently some issue is that my Perl Module folder is now empty and I don't have any installed. Well If I look for a Perl folder that is in my top directory (/home) that is not in my Public_Html folder, I thought everything above Public_Html was the server\host side and not to touch that and no need to back that up?
So thats a seperate issue still being worked on but I was able to upload\overwrite everything in the Public_Html folder but still had some issues - pages would download instead of opening up. After contacting my site support they responded
[quote]The issue was caused by miscellaneous files in the public_html/ folder that ended in .ini . I removed these to fix the problem.[/quote]
So I have few questions if ok;
1. When I uploaded\overwrite I noticed the file sizes were not the same size as on the server side I had transfer on Auto, when I changed it to Binary the sizes matched server side and my local side but then I found out it may be ASCII or Binary files so I wrote over again a third time using Auto setting. Is it ok to use the "Auto" mode even though the file sizes did not match up? Is that what you are supposed to use? Is that what caused my extra .ini files?
2. When you backup via FTP are you supposed to back-up the entire /home folders (such as Perl Folder) as opposed to just the Public_Html folder? Are all of those extra folders my site files as well?
3. Do you just take the top most folder and let it download\upload\overwrite everything automatically (files\subfolders) or is it better to go to each subfolder individually and up\download?
Just finding that now that I actually needed my back up I apparently didn't do anything right.