Never made a backup of vbulletin - ever
 

Believe it or not, I have never made a backup of my vBulletin, basically because I never understood how. So here's my question...

I've seen various programs like MySQLDumper and others that do some sort of backup. What I want to know is why can't I just FTP the files to my local hard drive using FileZilla or similar? Does this work for making a backup? or is there other things that also have to happen?

Secondly, is there any instruction for someone that hasn't a clue about making backup? ie instructions that are totally written for someone that doesn't know what the heck their doing?

It's funny because I can install mods, but that's only because they tell you word-for-word on how to do it. Example: Find this code, and place this underneath.

Do you have access to your database through phpMyAdmin? If so, see this - Backing Up The Database via phpMyAdmin

VIDEO TUTORIAL :) i didn't know anything about backing up but this helped me a lot, so i hope this will help you as well .. Honestly i just learned about back up by watching video i didn't read anything else in this video :P

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...your-4.0-Forum

Many thanks to both of you! That's exactly what I need...

Paul M has a great mod here too which may be of help to you guys https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=backup