You're welcome! :) I am happy that it works for you.

hi Birdie501

guess what man i payed for vbultin just to download ur hack lol
man i swear iam not ++++ing u i have diffrant forums and our hosting servers dont alow ssh or tel net
i have aproblem iam not geting any errors at all
every thing is cool the back up but in restore it says every thing restored
you go to the forum and boof nothing restored i did that over
4 times hosting on free bsd and all is cool as i told u no erros
just that the restore goes ok but in real it wont restore any thing
any idea will be so much happy 2 hear it
regards :glasses:

does this work with 2.2.9 and 2.3.0??

yah same here and with almost everyone

It doesn't create any file. I triple checked everything, and yes, my host can do dumps. Backup folder is still empty.

BTW, thanks for you "great" support... hehe, yeah right... :disappointed:

Hello Birdie501,

I am unable to restore db.

I feel something is wrong in the $programm variable:

// ###################### Start Dorestore #######################

if ($HTTP_POST_VARS['action']=="dorestore") {

if(file_exists($pfad."/backup.sql.gz")==1):
$programm="c:/usr/mysql/bin/mysqldump";
$parameter="--host=".$db_host." --user=".$db_username." --password=".$db_passwort." --database=".$db_name." <".$pfad."/backup.sql";

What should go in the $programm variable line please?

by the way, I am using Apache on Windows and using v2.3 and all is so far working fine, thanks for this useful hack! :)

never mind, I discovered the problem was a mistake in the hack code that wasn't even updated in the original instruction file, so if you're going to install be sure to read all the post and look for the area of the code that needs to be changed.

I read the whole thread and I must have missed the code change you were talking about. Can you point me to it, please? ;)

mmm... I tried going to the whole thread too to point out the changes, but sorry, maybe I didn't look good enough, anyways, I made the change in my install file and attached it, if you use it you shouldn't go wrong -at least I didn't.

Compare mine with the original install txt file and when you see the difference then you can search for the text and find the original posts that talks about the change in code. This I suggest you do.

I'd wish that whenever changes were made, developers took the time to upload the new files, so many people's time is plain wasted :(

I am using 2.3.0 and yes, it did work fine.

Is this the wrong file you attached? ;)

You mean I didn't attach file!? Sorry, here it is again.

Nope, I can't get it to work. It says that all is ok but no restore is done.... Anyone found a way to do this?

i have the same problem, buddy

there is a lot of problems with this hack,,,,,.....................maybe dont use it

Can't you restore it through phpmyadamin if you need to, if the restore feature doesn't work?

I tried to restore and it said:

But nothing changed, my old database wasn't restored? and it was called backup.sql.gz

This worked for the older versions of vB. I really wish someone would continue with this script because I think it's a good idea. If there's a backup feature, there should always be a restore feature as well.

i still fail to make connection as to what you are saying i looked through the whole of the thread and didnt see code change niether in you file its same as Birdie501.
as matter of fact you really have confused the me as the first attchment has nothing to do with the hack

I am using 2.30 and it worked fine for me - my db was screwed, I back it up every other day - and delete the old one,and I restored it using this hack and it worked a dream. I only lost 1 days posts (approx 300) so I was well happy!


update since moving the forums to a new folder I am having real problems.....

I have altered the templete.php to show
everything appears to be fine - i get the message "db backed up" etc
but when i down load the db - it tells me that the file is corrupt.
I have checked the folder permissions etc and everything appears to be fine?

Have you ever thought of adding .zip feature?

excellant wot can i say

/me click installed

took less than 2 secs to do 2meg test file

now small question anyone know what max file is this can do before times out or dont it work that way.

Best way ive seen of doing a databse backup and restore

/me is happy

forgot to say i tried to do a file though phpmyadmin and it crashed out and would`nt do a 1.7 meg file

So i contacted host and they only allow it to be done though SSH but this makes it a lot better with this hack :)

I gave this a whirl on 2.3.2 and I get the same thing of not finding the backup package. I did run the root.php, made sure the paths reflected that as well as checked again a few more times. I saw someone say they got this running on 2.3.0 but has anyone tried this on 2.3.2?

It also seems to run instantly which I thought was odd since the regular .sql backup file generated by the built in process in vB takes a minute or so to process before the d/l starts. I would have though even though creating the backup file on the server it would take a few seconds to run. Is this normal?

Thanks,

Chris

Installed in Both my forums and it works ok (well the back up so far I ll make a dummy forum tomorrow and test the restore, but so far so good

Click "install"

cool thanks!both are 2.3.0.

Well I tried to restore the backup sinc eour host lost everuthing (even backups) go figure!!!
I try to resptere everything sais its ok but no database, Ill contact my provider so I can check mySQLdump problem...

any other hints?

I need ver for vb3! thanks

anyone know if this works on vb rc3 as i used this all time on vb2 but not sure if will work on new one.

Its a good program netherless

It´s such a usefull hack, can´t someone port it to VB3?
It was so nice on vb2...

Hi,

I am sorry but i can't give support for vb 3 because I dont have a licence for that version.

Is there anyone who has the license and can help me to modify that hack?
Maybee birdie, I own the license, you could help me to modify the files to make it owk on vb3?