Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vB Database Backup (Lite)

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

Note: I did not write the original version, but rather have modified & adapted it.

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, 3.7 and now for vb3.8.

The original version was by Trigunflame and the rights to the code were bought by Zoints (David Chapman) in January 2007. Later 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.

As of version 3.8.002, most of the options have moved to the ACP in vBulletin Options >> vBulletin Automatic Backup

Notes:
* I will not be adding anything new to this modification.
* This is a Lite version to allow people to use the basic backup functionality on 3.8.


History:

v3.8.001 : First version for vB 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Moved most of options to ACP.
v3.8.003 : Moved more options to ACP.
v3.8.004 : Gzip option backported from vb4 version.
v3.8.005 : Split option backported from vb4 version, close option removed.
v3.8.006 : Fix php 5.3 deprecated warning.

[starli]

Hey Paul

I have a question about Item 4
I do not understand where I think the setting for this.
In the Admin CP I find nothing about this.
THE XML has already been uploaded and the Config adjusted.

Sorry for the bad English,
Starli (ger)

[buileminh]

I have not tried it yet... Anybody can tell me if it can email backed up DB to specified email address?

[Trek]

No, it outputs to a folder with incremental folders/table names. Not saying it's not possible, but this doesn't do that. Good idea though.

Originally Posted by buileminh

I have not tried it yet... Anybody can tell me if it can email backed up DB to specified email address?

[Nadeemjp]

nice. i always had problems cause backing up data base is too complicated for me.
i shall use this.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by starli

I have a question about Item 4
I do not understand where I think the setting for this.

Just leave it as is, the default is fine for 99% of people.

[Yonatan]

I get this error when i try to run this task:

Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

[Nadeemjp]

i didnt know how to use it.
i simply uploaded files and imported the product (without editing the php file since i dont know how to do it).

now what happened was, my forum started giving a blank screen with the following error:

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_require_hvcheck() in /home/familyb2/public_html/forums/global.php on line 486 


and nothing is happening. i tried deleting the files, i tried uninstalling the files, i tried re-uploading the global.php file but nothing seems to work. vbulletin support peopel say if i have modifications installed then they cant help which is obsurd since i only download modifications from this official site.

now can someone tell me what to do?
my url is:

PHP Code:

www.familybunker.com 


i started to download this mod because i dont know how to backup my data and i thought maybe this mod can help me. guys please help me out i am in big trouble.

[Nadeemjp]

one more thing.
up until a few hours, i had 3.8 installed and working fine.

but accidently in the afternoon i pressed the "revert prefs" button in the admincp. i didnt know what happened then, but now that i look at my version of vbulletin, it shows 3.7.3 PL1. i dont know what the heck happened.

am in trouble? cause i dont have any backup of my data

[joe1989]

Excellent mod! Love it!

But, I have a question... Why is it not recommended to turn the forums off during the backup? Wouldn't that be a good idea to close the forums temporarily during the backup?

Any info?

Also, how large does the forum need to be before this mod starts suffering from PHP timeouts? I have the newest PHP version (5.1.6).

Thanks again!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Nadeemjp

one more thing.
up until a few hours, i had 3.8 installed and working fine.

but accidently in the afternoon i pressed the "revert prefs" button in the admincp. i didnt know what happened then, but now that i look at my version of vbulletin, it shows 3.7.3 PL1. i dont know what the heck happened.

am in trouble? cause i dont have any backup of my data

Your problems are nothing to do with this mod, you should open a support ticket at vb.com