Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vB Database Backup

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Note: Because I did not write the original version, but rather have modified & adapted it, support of this modification may be limited

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, first for vb 3.6 and now for vb3.7.

The original version was by Trigunflame and the rights to the code were bought by Zoints (D.Chapman) in January. In 2007 David gave me permission to release my adaptation.

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.

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 backup functionality on 3.7.


History:

v3.7.001 : First version for vB 3.7.

[1230]

Hi,
what i do for set setting vb Backup?
Time,data and ... . ?

[arena]

Very good master Thanks for hack

[glennybee]

Thanks for this, just installed.

I was wondering, does it delete backups after a certain period of time? Or does it continually create backup and you need to manually delete them?

Thanks

[Paul M]

It does not delete backups (unless they are the same name as the new one its creating, in which case it will overwrite).

[glennybee]

Thanks you for the reply Paul.

[Fabsboards]

Thanks Paul!

[b6gm6n]

anyone know the path to outside public html? i have errors cannot write file, i have set the backups dir to > home/mysitecom/backups and set the chmod to 777

[Paul M]

its usually better to use a relative path, like ../../backups/

[b6gm6n]

Originally Posted by Paul M

its usually better to use a relative path, like ../../backups/

ahh right thanks, thats 'backups' within public html? - well ok then

[b6gm6n]

i should of used outside pub_html to save space... its not writing a file for me whatever dir i try or do... should of worked the first time, i'll read through this thread and see if i can find a solutions, cheers

EDIT, the solution for me was to write these databases outside of public_html, security and space saving...

The people having problems are forgetting the forward slash

/home/mysitecom/backups/

cheers

one last thing... to make it perfect this hack should gzip the output file and maybe have a setting to keep backups for a defined time period, say...going back 3 weeks or 2 days or whatever

cheers