2.3 Daily Backup
 

Is there a good hack that can do this while you sleep?

Just use a cronjob to copy your database files and php files to a backup directory. That's what I've been doing. You would need access to SSH.

Might help:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...highlight=cron

I don't know how it's done but I asked my host to set up a daily cron to backup my database at midnight every night :)

- miSt

Mist, who is your provider? They actually did it? No charge or hassle?

I have my contacts so no ;)

I dunno, i've heard that using cron jobs isnt such a good idea. If users are online at the same time that the backup is downloading, it can corrupt or delete something. In my case, it deletes random threads and users if I have the cron job on. :/

Backing up using cron jobs or any other method will always have some small risk in it if you keep your forums open during the backup. If you automate your backup, then obviously you are expecting to keep your forums online at that time as well. You minimize problems by backing up during off-peak times.

For myself, instead of exporting the database, I backup the actual mysql database files. :)

]Can we please get some more details?

example of how do *I* backup my database (+250Mb w/o any attached files)

[high]mysqldump --opt -h localhost -uuser -p database_name | gzip -c --best > `date +%d_%m_%y`.Forum.SQL.gz[/high]

Worked fine in past 1.5-2 years... We moved twice and both times import/export worked flawessly

*bump*