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.

[Paul M]

Sorry, I won't support that - the problem with compression is that there isn't a common method that will work across all platforms - some servers will use gzip, others winzip. That's why it's not part of this lite version. (JFYI - My [daily] backups are 600MB).

[Deimos]

Heh is that on the cable forum? I post there as AdamD

Yea, I can understand that.

Will you be bringing out a "non lite" version?
I'd pay for that, heh

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Deimos

Heh is that on the cable forum? I post there as AdamD

Yea, I can understand that.

Will you be bringing out a "non lite" version?
I'd pay for that, heh

Yes, that's CF's backups.

Nope, I won't be doing a non lite version. I don't have the time to write/support paid modifications.

[aciurczak]

I'm having the same error as the earlier poster. The backup appears to be completed ok (no error messages in log), yet my forums are not turned back on afterwards. Forums are giving out a "forum closed" message to any non-administrators, but when I look in the admincp, the forums are already listed as "on". By just resaving with that setting, forums pop back on and all is well.

FWIW, it was working fine for a week or two (backups each morning) until I noticed this behavior for the first time yesterday morning (when my page-monitoring service started to squawk at me every 5 minutes).

I know I can disable the forums being turned off, but nevertheless it appears that there may be some issue with the current code, at least as applied to my own forum.

[Paul M]

Code cannot work, and then not work, something must have changed.

Also, same question as I asked the other person - does your cron job actually log a completed ok message ?

[Mentch]

Installed!

Thank you, I lost my database not too long ago due to a hosting problem. And I had no relevant backup that worked.

Works great.

[Deimos]

I'm getting the same thing as well, it finishes, but leaves the forum closed, even though the admin panel says "on"

The log says

37074 Database Backup 11:04, 24th Oct 2006 MySQL Backup was completed successfully with no errors.

[Paul M]

Sorry, but it works fine for me, I cannot replicate such an occurance, nor can I see any way for it to happen. I suggest you just don't use that option.

[smoknz28]

Thanks Paul. Installed and working great!

[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.)