Successfully moved servers no problem
 

i just moved my forums in their entirety from one server to another without using telnet/ssh, yadda yadda yadda..the only thing i used is PHPmyADmin by dumping and running queries.

After reading through so many posts on VB.com and VB.org about having to use telnet/ssh/whatever, i just figgured id give it a try..worked flawlessley - i never saw any reference to this way of doing it in any of the threads i read..why?

http://www.vbulletin.com/manual/movingservers.html

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not sure why you posted that link..i was wondering why in all the references that i read, noone ever mentioned using myphp

PMA is extremely unreliable. Either you had a tiny database or you were extremely lucky.

Yea its never worked for me when tring to restore an old database........ -mutters-

php will time out, this is why its already recomended to use telnet/ssh, phpmyadmin is a php script, and so is the backup database tool in the admin cp, when the database gets large you'll both pmpmyadmin and the backup tool will time out and cause coruption.

ahh i see..my db is only about 5mb (excluding the attachment table which was about 130mb). i kept getting timed out when trying to dump attachment, so i just abandoned it..my internet connection is pretty shaky sometimes, so i figured it was that which was causing the timeouts versus the phpmyadmin itself..

thanks :p