best way to back up vbulletin?

[hoopsta]

Is it from the admincp >Maintenance > Database Backup?

If I wanted to transfer my site to a new server is this where I would go to back everything up before re-uploading?

thx in advance for help.

[Lynne]

You may want to read this: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/moving_servers

The best way to do a backup is to logon to your server via ssh and do a mysqldump.

[hoopsta]

thanks.

Just wondering, what's the point of this? = admincp >Maintenance > Database Backup?

[Lynne]

thanks.

Just wondering, what's the point of this? = admincp >Maintenance > Database Backup?
To be honest, I don't know. Well, maybe it is for owners who have small sites on shared servers where they are unable to backup their site using mysqldump.

[5th-Level]

Best backup is probably going to be through PHPMyAdmin

[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