Help Wanted
 

Hello everyone. Hoping I can find some help here.

I'm an admin for a vB but I have little to no knowledge of anything beyond the admin panel - learning as I go and hoping to learn alot.

my situation is this: I need to backup our boards so I can upgrade to the latest version. I would also like to set up a cron job to do an automatic backup every night. I have no idea where to begin and the threads and articles I've read are just way over my head. The most I've done so far is FTP some smilies to the images file and alter a few templates. I have no telnet knowledge or experience nor MySQL. I am a remote admin - reeeeealy remote. Our office is in Santa Fe and our server in LA. I'm in Arabia. Our webmaster is clueless as well so I'm pretty much alone in this.

What I'd like is for someone to walk me through this stuff. I want to learn, not just pay someone to do it for me. I would be willing to pay someone for the tutoring though :)

Anyone interested in helping me out?
~Cyn

Log in to your admin cp: [yourvbbdir]/admin/index.php

Choose "Back-up Database" from the menu at the left. Then press the button "Do Backup" And download the backup (something.sql) to a save place on ur hard drive. Next install PHPMyAdmin on ur destinated server where u wish to run vbb on. (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/index.php?dl=9)
Next, go to your phpmyadmin directory, (i assumed you created a database) and search for the string "Or Location of the textfile" Press the button "Browse" under that string. Select ur backup (something.sql) and press "Ok". This may take a while..

Good luck!

phpmyadmin is hard to install... i tried last week and got nowhere ....

I've heard somewhere that doing a backup from your Admin CP does not always work. :confused:

Of course it does...

But only if you apply to it to the version you upgraded from...

If it doesnt work on 2.2.6, and you upgraded from 2.2.5, any intelligent person would save their 2.2.5 version as a backup, incase they encountered any difficulties...

Satan

Its not hard at all.. You just have to enter the right database password + username (I think its not hard)

I find it odd that a host would not already have the software installed (phpMyAdmin). To my knowledge phpMyAdmin comes auto-installed with the CPanel software as well as Plesk (probably a number of others as well). Personally, I think they either opted not to install it, they are just to lazy to install it, or they do not know what they are doing (either way, I would find a new host, phpMyAdmin plays a good role in a good deal of all PHP scripts, at least the ones that use MySQL).

Just my .02 - :)

- SaintDog

Okay. I did the first step. Downloaded a backup of our database to a safe place on my harddrive.

Now. How do I install PHPMyAdmin on our server?

If you are on a shared server (if you are paying anywhere from $5 to $50 per month, you are on a shared server), I am not sure that you will be able to (as said above). You will need to contact your host and have them install it as you do not have root access to the server.

Regards,

- SaintDog

yea i just found phpmyadmin in my site cp (how dumb am i not to have seen it lol)