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.

[karel1985]

Hello

i have read a lot of pages in this topic but i cant find a solution for my problem:

i have installed this product:

i have set:

$backup['DUMP_PATH'] = '/home/httpd/vhosts/pc-helpforum.be/httpdocs/backups/'; // Path to backups folder, with trailing slash

so when i check if it works (press 'run now') i get the error:
An error occured during the MySQL backup. Details (Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.)

when i check the ftp folder: 'backups', there is a folder 2007-05-24 generated

all maps are 777 cmod

whats wrong?

[Paul M]

"all maps are 777" What does that mean ?

You shouldn't be storing backups in your httpdocs folder as they will be accessible to anyone.

[Pure Dope]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Why are you manually running the task ?

To make sure I had everything right. And....I needed to backup so I could install some hacks. Not good to manually run it?

[karel1985]

Originally Posted by Paul M

"all maps are 777" What does that mean ?

i mean that the folder Backups has write access,

suggestions?

Originally Posted by Paul M

You shouldn't be storing backups in your httpdocs folder as they will be accessible to anyone.

i will change that

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Pure Dope

Not good to manually run it?

If you run it manually and it takes a long time then you may hit timeout issues (as indeed you appear to have).

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by karel1985

suggestions?

Use a relative path in the setting (i.e. ../backups or ../../backups).

[karel1985]

i can't see to get it work

the fulle path is /home/httpd/vhosts/pc-helpforum.be/httpdocs

my forums are directly in the httdocs folder

so the map includes is: /home/httpd/vhosts/pc-helpforum.be/httpdocs/includes

i have create the map backups in /home/httpd/vhosts/pc-helpforum.be/httpdocs/backups

so i have set it:

$backup['DUMP_PATH'] = '../backups/'; // Path to backups folder, with trailing slash

also tried

$backup['DUMP_PATH'] = '../../backups/'; // Path to backups folder, with trailing slash

suggestions:
sorry because i don't got it work

[Paul M]

Sorry, there is nothing I can do about permission issues with your server, which is what you have here.

[karel1985]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Sorry, there is nothing I can do about permission issues with your server, which is what you have here.

Do u think?

I can use the backup feature thats included in vb standard - that works very good
but now its not working, weird :-)

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by karel1985

Do u think?

Yes, the error you listed tells you that ;

An error occured during the MySQL backup. Details (Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.)

That means the webserver did not have write permissions to create the file.