Main Control Panel: Including SSH Backup & Restore Through Your AdminCP!

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Main Control Panel Hack, by N9ne \\ Created on March 15th 2003. \\ Copyright N9ne, 2003+.
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Description: This hack will add a page to the adminCP. On this page, there are many settings.
You can set which userids can access this page and its options in config.php
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Options available on page:
- Overwrite database with a backup
- Create backup
- Reset post counts
- Include Administrators?
- Delete 0 posters
- Prune all threads and posts
- Prune all PMs
- Delete all smilies
- Delete all icons
- Delete all custom avatars
- Delete all avatars
- Delete all attachments
- Delete all announcements
- Delete all forums
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You require SSH or telnet access on your server in order to run this hack. It will be running
mysql < and mysqldump > commands, so they must be installed. This may not work on all
windows systems. If you want to run this on localhost with a windows OS, you will need to add
chdir commands before mysql and mysqldump executions.
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Level of hacking: Easy
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Time Taken: 1 minute.
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Files to modify:
admin/index.php
admin/adminfunctions.php
admin/config.php
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Files to upload:
admin/maincontrol.php
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In the attached .zip file you can find: A screenshot of some of the options \\ Instructions for installation \\ maincontrol.php

[AllMadden.net]

Sorry I didn't post the line of code...I fixed that.

But I do have another question. Where does the maincontrol.php go? forums/admin/ ?

I put it there and the options didn't show up in the admin cp (unless I am just blind and don't see them.

[N9ne]

Upload maincontrol.php to your admin directory. Make sure you've made the modifications to admin/index.php to make it show in the navigation.

[Entourage]

nice hack! Works lovely. Tnx

[tkeil69575]

great hack - absolutely perfect. thanks n9ne

tina

[N9ne]

Please click install Tina

[brianoneill]

I Have it installed ok, but having problems doing a backup.

Is it the case that it will only backup to a location on the same server? Or will it backup to your local machine?

If it will only do it to the server would someone mind posting an example of a path so I know what to try.

I ain't to hot on linux :ermm:

Thanks in advance.

Brian

[N9ne]

If you have cPanel, most likely the path will be something like:

/home/YOURACCTUSERNAME/public_html/these_are_folders_viewable_by_the_world

And you are correct in saying that they will only backup to the server. It will create a file on your server which you can then download to your local machine.

[subu1]

for which I should delete the Threads and Postings I don't understand

regards,
greetz subu1

[rake]

Very nice hack indeed. I'm not going to use it since i like doing everything myself, but i suggest adding an option to replace

mysqldump --opt
with
mysqldump --add-drop-table --all

since some servers might have restrictions on locking tables.
EDIT: By the way, it is guaranteed not going to work on a windows server, since the sytaxes for mysqldump and mysql are different.

[brianoneill]

Yesterday at 09:11 PM N9ne said this in Post #37
If you have cPanel, most likely the path will be something like:

/home/YOURACCTUSERNAME/public_html/these_are_folders_viewable_by_the_world

And you are correct in saying that they will only backup to the server. It will create a file on your server which you can then download to your local machine.

Any idea what the path would be for a plesk server?

Thanks

Brian