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Orfejs · #1 01-16-2003, 05:05 AM

I would love to have a script, which makes automatic backup once a month. It must maka a .zip archive of the fields I choose from the MySQL table (like post, attachments members & threads) and e-mail me. Is this possible - maybe together with MyPHP Admin?

Tony G · #2 01-16-2003, 05:08 AM

Hmm, sounds like something that would need hacking.

Orfejs · #3 01-16-2003, 05:17 AM

Yes, but no hacks around. As I understand - it would be quite advanced - isn't it. Maybe, Tony, you can post it to other great vb sites you know?! Because I only had the idea, but don't have the time. Can you, can anybody?

filburt1 · #4 01-16-2003, 12:28 PM

It can be done with a cron job; here's what I use. Beware though that I haven't put functionality in to close the boards first then reopen them after the dump is complete, but if your board is relatively inactive it's not a problem.

Also back up daily, not monthly! There have been times were I would have been royally screwed if I had to use a month-old backup.

My shell script:

Code:

#!
echo Backing up last dump...
mv ~/dump.sql ~/olderdump.sql
echo Dumping database to file...
mysqldump --opt -uusername -ppassword databasename > ~/dump.sql
echo Dump complete!

Tony G · #5 01-16-2003, 12:33 PM

Depends on how busy your forum is. I agree monthly is too long but considering the size of WDF I see why you do it daily.

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