Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vB Database Backup

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Note: Because I did not write the original version, but rather have modified & adapted it, support of this modification may be limited

When vb 3.5 first came out I was using this backup system on my vb 3.0 - and having nothing better to use - I converted it to work on vb 3.5 (here) and since then I have cut it down and adapted it, first for vb 3.6 and now for vb3.7.

The original version was by Trigunflame and the rights to the code were bought by Zoints (D.Chapman) in January. In 2007 David gave me permission to release my adaptation.

I have stripped out much of the extra stuff that I do not use (or indeed, could not get to work). This is a simple (lite) version that does a php based dump of your database either as one file, or one file per table.

Notes:
* I will not add anything new to this, or spend vast amounts of time supporting it.
* This is a Lite version to allow people to use the basic backup functionality on 3.7.


History:

v3.7.001 : First version for vB 3.7.

[Jason Buchanan]

Okay I have installed everything in the proper folders. I click run and get:
Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.7

An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

I created a folder named backups? What else should I do and how do I CHMod a folder to 777?

[Jason Buchanan]

I changed all the 0666 to 0777 and now when I run it I get this:

Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.7

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/mysqlbackup.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/cron/cronbackup.php on line 19

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/darkhors/public_html/forum/includes/mysqlbackup.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/darkhors/public_html/forum/includes/cron/cronbackup.php on line 19

[TrIn@dOr]

Thanks.

[shlomot]

Thanks for this important MOD. However, I'm getting the same error:

Originally Posted by nothing4me

I get the error: An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

The situation is as follows:

1. I didn't edit anything in mysqlbackupconfig.php

2. Since the relative path for the backup files is '../../backups/', I created a 'backups' folder in forum root and chmod to '777'

What am I missing here? Thanks for your help.

[|Jordan|]

Is there any way to have it automatically compress the backed up database? The backup can be quite large.

[russbo]

try ./backups/ if your backup folder is in the forum root, or, ../forum/backups/

I had to play with mine for a bit. You guys get this error when the config file can't find the backups folder.

I put mine outside the forum root, and outside the public html root so that it's more protected. use the actual server path to the folder if you want to do it that way.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by shlomot

What am I missing here? Thanks for your help.

Probably open_basdir protection.

Originally Posted by |Jordan|

Is there any way to have it automatically compress the backed up database? The backup can be quite large.

Nope, this has no such facility.

[shlomot]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Probably open_basdir protection.

How can I overcome this challenge?

[Paul M]

Read this, and speak to your host.

[shlomot]

Thank you. Will do.

Originally Posted by Paul M

Read this, and speak to your host.