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.

[Neal-UK]

I have my backup off the root, but when I enter the same settings as when I do a manual backup I get the same error bashy gets.

In the config file, it does say DIR for the backup with trailing "/"

I've entered it like "/site/user/whatever/isit/dbbackup/"

[phpdevrus]

you just need to chmod the directory to make it writable. ;-) also remember to keep it out of public_html so that it is not viewable to the web.

also keep the directory within your sites dirs and not off of / but rather a local dir for that particular site ie. /site/user/what/backups/ or /home/whatever/backups.

your script will run as the user nobody or your account user, which will not allow it to write files off of root ie. /dbbackups

hope that helps.

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i forgot to mention... nice... :-) works fine for me and i have 900k post. it might cause a load issue but it seems the same compared to when i run mysqldump from ssh.

[Neal-UK]

It's all set right then, the directory is chmod to 777 as i normally do a manual backup. It's one above public_html also for security reasons.

Can't get it to work.

EDIT: Replaced file with directory

[phpdevrus]

no i meant chmod the directory and not the file. let me know if that works or not.

[Neal-UK]

Yes the directory is chmod to 777, as I normally do a manual backup.

Weird, useful mod this too.

[Snake]

Thanks for this. Sounds interesting but do you have any screenshots?

[Snake]

Nevermind. Found one in the old thread.

[mIRCnet]

Paul ,
Sorry to ask you, My forum path is /home/user/public_html/forum
I want it to store the backup in this DIR /home/user/packups
can you help me please ?

[steadicamop]

This works very well, but I have a problem which I think isn't solveable - I think the php execution time is set at around 30 seconds, which often times out when it's backing up a table, and will only ever reach postindex before it ends, never carrying out a full backup - is there any way around this? I really would like this as it's damn handy to have daily backups!!!

Plus as I've just discovered, it leaves the forum offline!

[Alrasam]

Thanks Paul