Its just an example, not a suggestion of what to actually use.

Installed. We'll see how things go tonight at 1:00AM :)

well i waited a day...only ran the once (by me pressing run-now) for some reason it's not working, i have lost confidence, uninstalled, sorry dude

Works fine if you set it up correctly, not much i can do if you dont. :)

yeah your right, i know.... i just got frustrated with it as other things were praying on my mind, re: other webbby stuff not installing...or driving me mad :)

installed and thanks
please tell how to restore the database if needed ?

Could you possibly add this feature to automatically prune backups older than x amount of days? That would be great.

Sorry, I wont be adding any features to this in the forseeable future.

I am a true rookie when it comes to this. Does it matter which folder on the server I upload the files too, or do they go in the forum folder?

Copy the files in the includes folder to your forum includes folder, similar for the cron folder.

Okay I have installed everything in the proper folders. I click run and get:
Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.7

An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

I created a folder named backups? What else should I do and how do I CHMod a folder to 777?

I changed all the 0666 to 0777 and now when I run it I get this:

Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.7

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/mysqlbackup.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/cron/cronbackup.php on line 19

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/darkhors/public_html/forum/includes/mysqlbackup.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/darkhors/public_html/forum/includes/cron/cronbackup.php on line 19

Thanks.

Thanks for this important MOD. However, I'm getting the same error: The situation is as follows:

1. I didn't edit anything in mysqlbackupconfig.php

2. Since the relative path for the backup files is '../../backups/', I created a 'backups' folder in forum root and chmod to '777'

What am I missing here? Thanks for your help.

Is there any way to have it automatically compress the backed up database? The backup can be quite large.

try ./backups/ if your backup folder is in the forum root, or, ../forum/backups/

I had to play with mine for a bit. You guys get this error when the config file can't find the backups folder.

I put mine outside the forum root, and outside the public html root so that it's more protected. use the actual server path to the folder if you want to do it that way.

Probably open_basdir protection.

Nope, this has no such facility.

How can I overcome this challenge?

Read this, and speak to your host.

Thank you. Will do.

Can we configure the hack to save database in another FTP Please ?

Nope, you cannot do that with this mod.

Nice one, Installed

Im a little lost i wanted to use this great hack when i was 3.6 but got the same error.

Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.7

An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

can someone help me?

Can Anyone help?

If you read the thread you will see that this is down to permissions on your server, there is not much we can do as you havent really given any information.

Thanks Paul, Great mod.
does she work if the data base is very heavy? (around 1GB)

Best Regards!

Yes, should be fine.

Thanks for reply!! : )
**installed**

I get this error: and my forum stays with the error and the backup wont complete i cant even access admincp....but when reparing tables everything go back to normal, but i can never do backup, i get that error, before it was all good now idk what happen it wont work

You mysql timeout must be very low - I would say the database connection is timing out checking the previous table, which I would guess is the post table.

This is great clicks install.

This mod rocks, I am having 2 problems.

1) Whenever I modify my "mysqlbackupconfig.php" file to exclude tables from the backup, I get an error that says Line 29 is where I put in my exclusions. The currently say They are large and never change so I do not want them backup up. There is nothing wrong with the way they are entered into the array. What is wrong here?

2) The scheduled task area does not have an option to make a task run every 3rd day. How do I do this? This is not a busy site, I have no need for a daily backup.

Ideas?

1. The example clearly shows you put the tables in the array, you have not done this.


2. You cannot do this with the vb cron system.

D'Oh! I am such an idiot! Thanks
Is there mod out there that allows me another choice for cron execution?

Thank You
What should i do?
Contact webhost ?
What is a good timeout for mysql ?
Thank You again

If you are on a shared server then contact your host - dont hold out too much hope tho.

Excellent mod/addon :). I'm not too savvy with setting up cronjobs/scheduled tasks properly, so this worked perfectly. Saves a lot of time and hassle for doing regular backups; which I often tend to forget to do heh.

So huge thanks for this :up:

None I know of.

There is any way that files not contain in your name the date but the folder yes contain?
Best Regards!!

**nominated**