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I'm feeling quite stupid, b/c I can't get the easy txfr thingey to work. Either that, or my understanding of what gets moved is wrong.

I have a site: http://www.rockridge.....idents.org. I want to back it up to this location: http://www.myhomecoo.....om/rrrback , which is another site that I own. I'll use rrrback to basically beta-test stuff before putting it on the prod site.

What I thought JoomaCloner would do:
- Move the whole dang thing, including my components, modules, files, and db.

What I thought I should do:
1) On the prod site: run JoomlaCloner, generate a backup. That went fine. It's 206MB.
2) On the prod site: Press the "Clone" button, send it to the backup site at the ./rrrback location. That went fine. I think; I kept getting this blank screen even with the "incremental" button checked, but i'd restart it and it picked up where it left off.

3) On the backup site: Set perms. I changed every directory under rrrback to 777. I didn't change rrrback itself as that would then create a "500 Internal Server Error" result.

4) On the backup site: goto ./rrrback/Joomla.Cloner.php, and run that file. I thought it went fine, it said "Connected to localhost, for user myhomeco, starting transfer...
Files transfer finished!"

But, it doesn't look like it actually did anything. Some of the files & directories are under ./archive_tmp, I see module but I don't see components.

So what's the deal? Where did I go wrong or skip a step?

Thanks.