Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vB Database Backup Pro (Lite) for vb 3.6

This modification is no longer available or supported.

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 for vb 3.6.

The original version was by Trigunflame and the rights to the code were bought by Zoints (D.Chapman) in January. A while ago David gave me permission to release my adaption, but until now I haven't got round to it. Trigunflame did mention a few months ago he was working on a new version, but nothing ever appeared.

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. It's been in use on our forum since the day 3.6 was installed.

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 3.0 backup functionality on 3.6.


History:

v2.10 : First internal version.
v2.11 : Bug fixes, some code changes.
v2.12 : Initial Public Release.

[Pirat3]

Question, my path is this (to my FORUM):
/home/mysite/public_html

Can someone please reply back to what new directory i should create to store my backups in? Should it be something like this:
/home/mysite/BACKUPS ?

The mysite folder contains 2 folders, one is public_html and other is certs

This is linux server btw.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Pirat3

Can someone please reply back to what new directory i should create to store my backups in? Should it be something like this:
/home/mysite/BACKUPS ?

Yes, that would be a good choice.

[F0xy]

to stop it from shutting the board while the backup is in progress do i make the following changes?

change: $backup['SHUTDOWN'] = 1;

to: $backup['SHUTDOWN'] = 0;

[Paul M]

Yes.

[GoTTi]

so this will make a new folder and backup file for each day correct? or will it continue to overwrite the 1 it makes?

[Paul M]

That depends on how you set up the time in the config. It will overwrite anything of the same name.

[GoTTi]

Paul im stupid, explain to me what i would have to do if i want to have the backup create a new file each time the backup runs?

[Arrogant-One]

EDIT: Nvm fixed.

[Animparadise]

i have problem with persian(farsi) (utf8) character, when i restore the specific table, it restore question marks "?????" instead of orginal persian(farsi) characters. something like : تست == ؟؟؟

[afullcup]

Originally Posted by Paul M

So how do you fix it ?

As soon as I disable this product, the hover feature comes back.