vBulletin Cron Based Database Backup
 

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This is a cut down version based on a backup system written by Trigunflame for vb 3.0. It is a simple vBulletin cron trigged php system that does a dump of your database - either as one complete file, or as one file per table. Especially useful now that IB removed the old ACP backup option in vBulletin 4. Files can be (G)Zipped to save space.

All the options are located in the ACP in vBulletin Options >> vBulletin Automatic Backup

To install, download and unzip the files, and follow the instructions in the text file.


History:

v4.0.1 : 28-Dec-2009 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 29-Dec-2009 : Added ability to block process larger tables.
v4.0.3 : 27-Jun-2010 : Added Gzip option.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.0.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.
v4.2.0.1 : 17-Mar-2013 : Removed vboptions from backup call..
v4.2.0.2 : 25-Nov-2013 : Fix php 5.3 deprecated warnings, added mysqldump backup.

Woot woot. Why did they take it out in the first place? duh... i used it all the time.

I care for my site, so I do not trust apache/php/mysql limits from the browser. And use a shell to back it up. This way apache can be down, but I can still make a database. And after 15mb for example on most hosts I still get a complete sql dump.

But strange that they removed it. I guess they didn't add any value to backing up database or something. Good to see a vBulletin.org administrator show he cares about sites too and adding this as a plugin to version 4.

Thanks Paul, for your work on this.

Q: How does this deal with PHP script timeouts? Will it work with a 200 mb database for example?

I know that MSD will use refreshes and resume routines to get around script timeouts for large databases...will this do the same?

TIA

Installed very good wwork paul :)

It sets the timeout to 1 hour (unless your php setup disallows this).

My database it well over 1GB, and i use this daily (it takes < 5 minutes to run the backup).

Thank you very much
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This was the last mod i have been waiting for. Thank you very much Paul. Your work is much appreciated.

AWESOME! Great Work Paul. Always love your mods! <clicks install>

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