Today I want to give some hints at creating a working backup of a typo3 installation.
Installing an additional typo3 extension can obviously be a good possibility if you have to backup just one or two setups. There seem to be a few really handy ones. But in my case this would be very ineffective. First, you have to install another extension for every running typo3. Then doing the saving stuff on console can have some advantages like cron tabbing etc. That is why I decided to do it “by hand”.
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Today I make yet another Typo3 installation. But this time I think: Why not making a short tutorial how to do this? So, here it goes:
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I tried to install a new Typo3 4.2.0 site on a server which supplies only PHP4. I’ve got the message “Typo3 requires at least PHP 5.1.0″. I tried to workaround this error. But after endless “code fixes” I have given up. The new stable version of Typo3 (4.2.0) can not be handled by PHP4. Athough the old stable 4.1.6 just works without any problems on a PHP4 environment.

Edit: I have found an official statement of an typo3 developer confirming Typo3 4.2 will not work with PHP4.