windows XP

Reinstall what? SecureCRT?

OK I just noticed something, after I type in the password and hit enter, it doesn't do anything but after a while comes up with the bash thing, after doing that I checked the backup folder and a backup was present! So the 20 minutes you say it takes was misleading, even though I have 50k posts, 5k threads, 1k members in my DB :p

great tut TECK, it's a very fast way of backing up.

One Question: Is this the equivalent of downloading the database everytime from the adminCP? Does this contain the exact same information, all users, posts, threads, template edits, stylesets etc?

it depends on your database size. if you have a small database, ya is fast. but on a large site it can last even 30min, so is not misleading.
I specified this clearly in the tutorial:
You will not see the prompt until the backup is done.
for your question, yes. it does contain all the time all data stored in your database. and the bigger is your database to higher will be the lap time until you complete it.

I'm on broadband, should it be fast? It only takes me about 40 seconds to backup but if I download the DB from the AdminCP it's about 70MB however when I dump it it's only 38MB :confused:

i'm talking about databases that are 1gig. 70mb is really small.

How can I import someone elses VB into mine without losing eithers posts?

there is no way to do this, until now. if i understood correctly, vB team works on a project like that...

So I'd likely have to import the db table itself into a sub table, then transfer what I could by hand?

I'm more at home with the database than I am php code, I believe I could get some done.

Trying to get this to work.

When I log on to CRT, I don't get [USERNAME HOSTNAME]$ _

I get
bash-2.04*$

Anyways, when I type in the mysql bla bla, it says

"no such file or directory exists.

This is the path Im typing
home/virtual/site376/fst/var/www/html/backup/blablabla.sql

This is the exact info I was given from the info.php file.
I know the directory is there, I can see it on my server, but CRT isn't recognizing it.

Any ideas?

Should I turn off the board first? I've heard it both ways and I'm not sure if this is required or not. Thanks.

JakeC