[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Hellspire

I am curious to know from someone who has looked into this (as I regretfully dont have time nowadays) as to the workings of vbulletin's admincp database backup.

Why would the one generated from admincp be 12-13mb
Whereas a .gz generation from cpanel would be around 2-3mb.

Obviously this is because of a means of compression, but if so, why wouldn't vbulletin create a clone of cpanels gz compression?

Or is this because of another reason, that gz doesn't store file data from things like customavatars, etc when they are stored in mysql.

Thanks to anyone who fills me in, its always good to look into these things for the hell of it ^_^

Because cpanel uses a differnt method and to be very honest, you should not be backing up your database via cpanel or vBulletins Admincp, the only way to be 100% sure you have a full backup everytime is to use SSH and the mysqldump command.