[music legend]

Originally Posted by sgrynd

I am not a big board, only about 60,000 posts, but I am using the following for my backups:

http://www.in-my-opinion.org/in-my-opinion-4529.html

It was designed for phpBB but I found it works well for VB, I recently used it to move from 1 host to another with out any issues (you millage may vary).

Currently I have it running the mysql backup once a day and the files once a week. Every night I have a server at my home go out and download what ever new backups there are and when it is complete remove them from the server.

I keep the backups in a protected directory so as not to be grabbed by the search engines, scheduling is done via cron.

Hope it helps.

i just d/l that tool. is their anything that you have to edit in that package or do you just upload it to your server and run the processes because i can get the backup of the files,avatars and bin

but i cant seem to get it to backup the mysql....any ideas why?