Automatic backups for vbulletin 4.2.x

[zerious]

Hi all together,

is there any solution, a module, plugin, or something else, that's doing automatic backups from the whole installation and database and saves it packed on the server?

I'm looking for something similar to https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/ but only for vb. And sorry if this is a stupid question. :)

[Dave]

Do you have root access to your server? If so, instead of installing a plugin, just run a cronjob.

https://www.westhost.com/knowledgebase/display/WES/Setting+a+Cron+Job+to+do+a+MySQL+Database+Backup
http://stackoverflow.com/a/19628428/6275228
http://www.noupe.com/development/10-ways-to-automatically-manually-backup-mysql-database.html
https://pmgarman.me/blog/backup-all-mysql-databases-automatically-via-cronjob/

[zerious]

Thanks for the tip! But this is only for the database right?

[Dave]

You could modify it to backup anything you want.

[TheLastSuperman]

One note: Always know your database size AND disk space available on your server. If you run out of disk space the backup may not finish and the site could run into issues including database errors.