Deprecated Darkstar fourms

if their a guide, or recommended steps needed to take to backup chars before doing an update to latest working version?

would generally suggest backing up your entire database before any updates, and use wolke's updater if you don't know what you are doing...it will hold your hand for the most part.

Hi, thx for advice.

This is what i did before, but because there was some major changes in the tables, it didnt like it when i copied them back.
Was just wondering if their some a special routine for it.

I usually update the char table schema manually. For example there is a new column added in "chars", i open it in design mode in Navicat, open the new chars.sql, and add in the new column where it shows in the file. That way I preserve the existing data and don't have to mess with exporting/importing the records.