Restore backup
 

Hi guys. Im new in this and I have a young forum and now I will shut down untill I have small numbers of members. Problems happend when I put new paid skin, tryed everithing to solve the problems but no luck.
Now I want to backup my forum and install on locallhost in my PC (using wampserver), I already install vbulletin on PC but I dont know how to upload database and forumhome on my pc so I can save the posts in forum and testing purpose what we didit and soon open
the new forum(hope this time no mistakes)

Thank you all, who have time to help me and I hope will be a litlle detailed, or you know some site where the tutorial is alrady maked.

Many regards balegar

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/m...nce_ssh_backup

Restore:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...ce_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/showt...t=mysqlhotcopy

Bigdump:
http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php

I dont know to say, except one big thanks.