[David Lama]

thanks again zach!

Originally Posted by Zachery

There is no specific size for vBulletin, I've done 500mb backups from the admincp and others haven't been able to get past 10mb. Its safer to use the cpanel backup.

but shouldnt both backups look more or less the same? the one from vb and the one from cpanel?? cause they look different. start and end differently. even the things in the middle look different. is that weird? and i know the cpanel one is zipped. but even when i unzip it and rename it a sql file it is still smaller than the vbulletin admincp one.

i just did a back up with both minutes away from each other

vbulletin admin cp backup = 62.8 MB (unzipped and renamed a sql file)

my hosts cpanel backup = 55.2 MB (SQL file)

i guess the reason i worry with the cpanel backup the most is because it isnt like the admincp one. at least the admincp backup says "
### VBULLETIN DATABASE DUMP COMPLETED ###" all the way at the bottom. the cpanel backup doesnt. is it suppose to?? if not whats suppose to be all the way at the bottom??

also in cpanel there are 3 different types of backups. aliases, filters something and then the mysql. is this why its smaller than the admincp one? is the admincp backup all 3 from the cpanel one together or something??