[Angel-Wings]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

What I do, and what others do is an assumption. Does everyone use smilies in this chat? No, Does everyone use the PM function? No. But having it as an option is not a drawback in any form. Why? I see things differently. 1 being say a full backup of a database is 100+ megs. You tell me you've never had a large dB timeout exporting, importing etc. Would you rather export / import a 1 meg file, or 100 meg file? Whether the people do their admin functions is not my concern. Having a useful function is. This to me is. Let me know when you use shared hosting, and you have to have THEM do the import because you can't due to limitations etc. There is a reason for this.

For sure your points are all valid - just - if someone wants to backup, AdminCP -> Database Backup and then just selecting the Chatbox tables.
I just want to say it's maybe not required to invent the wheel a second time if already everything's there.
If you backup only the Chatbox tables, the resulting backup won't be that large - just - people would manually need to do it.

This should be exactly what you want, isn't it ?

In case of a complete data loss, backup would be that installing the Chatbox again, getting the tables created and then re-import the Chatbox Tables Backups - everything without a complete DB import.

Oh - and - I really never had a large timeout I'm personally using a Master -> Slave replication on a very small backup server and from there again to my local home network.

Back to topic - like said - Backups of the Chatbox can already be done without doing a complete backup of the board DB via AdminCP, adding such a feature would maybe result in a more complex script and we all know - the more complex something is, the more hard it is to have it clean of any hidden bugs.

But - if the developer wants to add such a function, no problem as well