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Originally Posted by Dave

This doesn't have to be done inside of vBulletin, you can simply setup a cronjob to execute a bash file to run mysqlbackup every X hours/days to make a backup to a certain location.

Then you could even execute a tool such as zip in the bash file to zip the backup and save some storage.

This is good advice. The best part is vb5 comes with a bash backup script (vb_backup.sh) in the do_not_upload folder. It automatically backs up the database, names it by dbname-date, and compresses it with gzip. You need to edit the path_to_config variable in the script.