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.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by PAKIDIL

"Y-m-d"
in to
2008-10-01
Do not Change "Y-m-d" until u get it working for ya

Do not change that at all unless you understand what you are doing. Its a generic date format, not something you set to specific dates.

Originally Posted by PAKIDIL

one thing if any one could tell me how to compress the backup in to zip or gzip ? thanks

You cant, at least not with this mod.

Originally Posted by chadi

Would be great if you can add this feature please. Thanks.

Sorry, nothing new will be added to this.

[PAKIDIL]

one thing i want to ask its making new folders every time it runs so how can overwrite on the same backup ?

[desirulez]

i dont know how to set the settings

i want a daily backup settings

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by PAKIDIL

one thing i want to ask its making new folders every time it runs so how can overwrite on the same backup ?

You could do what I do and change the time format to this ;

PHP Code:

$backup['DATE'] = 'l'; // Lowercase 'L' 


This creates a folder for each day (i.e. Monday, Tuesday etc) and they get overwritten each week.

Originally Posted by desirulez

i dont know how to set the settings

i want a daily backup settings

It runs daily by default.

[Markos]

dose it run daily at 4 every day then and can u make it run you're self to test it ??

[Paul M]

You can run any vb cron via the schedules area of the ACP.

[Suenee]

Ok I am completely new at this and do not know code at all. I know from reading these post that this is nothing new to you. However if you will humor my ignorance and give me some suggestions as to how to make this mod work it would be greatly appreciated. I set the path to:

// File Saving Information
$backup['DATE'] = 'Y-M-d'; // Backup file date format (See http://uk.php.net/date)
$backup['PREFIX'] = 'Forum-'; // Backup file prefix, applied to all files
$backup['DUMP_PATH'] = '/home/www.mywebsite.com/backups/'; // Path to backups folder, must have a trailing slash

This is the best I could interpret it from this thread. I loaded the includes folder into the home directory. When I ran the task I get an error message that reads this:


Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.7

Warning: include_once([path]/./includes/cron/cronbackup.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 113

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/./includes/cron/cronbackup.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 113

Can one of you please tell me what I need to do to correct this situation to make this work?

Thank you in advance
Suenee

[Paul M]

That is basically saying that the file cronbackup.php is not uploaded (to the correct place ?).

[Suenee]

Originally Posted by Paul M

That is basically saying that the file cronbackup.php is not uploaded (to the correct place ?).

that I can fix can you tell me which file it should be in?

[Thug]

awsome worked a charm