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]

Hi Paul....

I assume since my Client API version says it's 5.0.24a, I should change this option below to "0"?

// Backup Optimizations
$backup['MYSQL4'] = 1; // Set to 1 if you are using MySQL4

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

[kenfuzed]

I posted this question a couple days ago but now I have the actual error to go with it.

PHP Code:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: regular expression too large at offset 65539 in /includes/functions.php on line 555 


This error line repeats itself 50+ times down each forum page before the actual content is shown. This only occurs right after running the backup job, but not every time which is making it difficult to track down. It is cleared by toggling the forum off/on.

Here is my original question:

Originally Posted by kenfuzed

This may be unrelated to the backup itself, but right after this runs each morning my db/site seems to be having trouble restarting correctly. This doesn't happen every time but lately has occurred several times per week. Only the forumhome page starts correctly but all other pages have errors and won't display their content (just lines of errors). When I go in and turn vB off then back on, all pages display correctly. The errors occur right after the backup completes. Is there a command I could add to the end of the backup config file that would perform this restart procedure after the backup is completed?

[Paul M]

I would guess there is some problem with the vboptions not being saved properly when the board is turned off/on by the mod.

I would just turn that option off in the config file (I don't use it).

(set $backup['SHUTDOWN'] = 0)

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I would guess there is some problem with the vboptions not being saved properly when the board is turned off/on by the mod.

I would just turn that option off in the config file (I don't use it).


(set $backup['SHUTDOWN'] = 0)

Hi Paul....

Question on a different option setting ...

I assume since my Client API version says it's 5.0.24a, I should change this option below to "0"?

// Backup Optimizations
$backup['MYSQL4'] = 1; // Set to 1 if you are using MySQL4

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

[Paul M]

It's actually an option for mysql4 or above, so you can leave it set to 1.

[raiderlax]

I really don't recommend people to install this, I know it royally screwed my site up, thank goodness for backups!

[Deimos]

Originally Posted by raiderlax

I really don't recommend people to install this, I know it royally screwed my site up, thank goodness for backups!

How so? Works fine for me.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by raiderlax

I really don't recommend people to install this, I know it royally screwed my site up, thank goodness for backups!

I suggest you provide some solid proof to backup this claim.

[raiderlax]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I suggest you provide some solid proof to backup this claim.

You are right, I should provide solid proof of this, but I have already re-stored my site and am not going to re-install this mod to prove this, in fact I didn't really have to re-store the site, I could have just uninstalled the mod and things would have been fine, I just didn't know at first it was this mod that caused the problems on the site.

Some problems were header links missing and a lot of functionality missing on the site.

So now I will spend some time fixing up the site only because I had previous mods installed that have got messed up from re-storing the site, but if you do have problems like ones I have mention uninstall this mod to see if it is it(in my case it was) and do not go ahead and restore all your forum files like I had done

Other than that I like the idea of the mod and the way it was working until these problems arose.

[da420]

I've had this installed since back in October when it was first released without any problems whatsoever.