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.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Paul M

The advantage of single files is you can restore a single table if required. The disadvantage is you need to join them if you want to restore everything in one go. It's personal choice.

Thanks Paul....

Yup, for the first time last night, I set the config to do one file and that's what I got. One humungous single file for restore, if I ever needed it.

Regards,
Badger

[Fireproof]

Holy cow - worked the first try!! Awesome mod - thank you very much!!

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by Necrosaro420

Any ideas why I get this message every time I run it? Plus I dont have an option in the control panel anywhere for some reason to set my options, I have installed it correctly. Thanks

Error:

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

You likely need to chmod the destination directory to 777.

Make sure you set up your settings in the config file for the mod



Great hack!!! Love it!! Really helps out when my host doesn't always give me the best SSH access

[Deimos]

Has anyone figured out how to put a conditional in, to delete backups which pass a certain age? like 7 days or something?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Deimos

Has anyone figured out how to put a conditional in, to delete backups which pass a certain age? like 7 days or something?

I second that.... :up:

It would be very useful... a rolling 7 days of backups as an example...

Regards,
Badger

[David Lama]

this may be a dumb question.. but where on my server should i put the files in the includes folder?

[twilighthush]

Destination folder is chmodded to 0777, however I'm still getting the error:

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

I changed the path to: /home/users/public_html/forum/[foldernamehere]

It is a password locked folder -- from the outside. But it shouldn't affect backup, because I know I can manually back up via AdminCP. Please advise.

[Deimos]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

I second that.... :up:

It would be very useful... a rolling 7 days of backups as an example...

Regards,
Badger

I'm having a friend of mine program it in, so once she's done it, I'll post the modified/added code here.

[twilighthush]

Edited path to root forum so it reads like:

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

and chmodded the folder to 777.

Still not working. Any ideas?

[philip_g]

Originally Posted by twilighthush

Edited path to root forum so it reads like:

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

and chmodded the folder to 777.

Still not working. Any ideas?

dunno, mine would only work correctly without the trailing / but then wouldn't actually write the file. I gave up lol