[The Prohacker]

Originally Posted by parafieldtower

Hello guys, I'm in a rather serious situation here. My server has gone haywire and I can not do any SSH or FTP to it. The only thing that seems to be working is vBulletin. Everything else such as mail server or cronjobs are not functioning. What's worst is that all the database I backup every night are not accessible. What I need to do is to backup the current database (somehow) so we can re-instate the server to the beginning.

Now I have tried to download the file by using vBulletin's admin cp panel but I think because php has this timeout feature, it got to about 45MB and stopped. Database should be around 250MB. Does someone have any idea of how to do this? Can we modify this timeout feature by uploading a plugin script? I'm using vBulletin 3.5.4.

If your server is having that many major issues, I would have your server provider mount the current disk as slave and install a new primary drive with a fresh install of the operating system of your choosing. I would then get the new server configured and start to just copy information off of the slave drive such as the database, files, logs, etc.