backup?

[MTVSlick]

just curious to how i can do a backup on my Vbulletin forum, I did a bakup via adminCP but when i try and do it doesnt work, the backup worked just cant seem to return it, any input would be great. did some mods and now old mods dont work, maybe due to upgrade of Vb to 3.6

Mark,

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The only reliable method of backing up and restoring a database is with shell access via telnet or ssh. This is because backing up with a PHP script like that in the Admin CP or phpMyAdmin can result in PHP timeouts errors and an incomplete backup file. Please see the instructions here:

Backup:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/maintenance_ssh_backup

Restore:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/maintenance_ssh_restore

P.S. If you don't have shell access, some people have also reported success with these scripts:

MySQLDumper:
http://www.mysqldumper.de/en/index.php

MySQLHotxcopy:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134821&highlight=mysqlhotcopy

Bigdump:
http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php

[MTVSlick]

thankyou

Mark,