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.

[MCAlexandre]

Originally Posted by Paul M

It might help to post what path you have actually set.

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I tried those up there, but now I have this path: "includes/cron/cronbackup.php"

[Mr. Hoddz]

So I use this to backup a table, and then import that into phpmyadmin if I make a new database? Would that work?

Not clicked install yet as I'm asking before =D

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by MCAlexandre

x_x'

I tried those up there, but now I have this path: "includes/cron/cronbackup.php"

Umm, I mean your backup path.

[MCAlexandre]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Umm, I mean your backup path.

That's... I don't know how to set it. Please tell me and I'll see if the errors continues showing up. Sorry for being a noob.

[Paul M]

Its set in the mods config file, with all the other options that come with the mod.

[ntrance]

Had a few issues with the install then managed to get it working using the relative path.
It wouldn't work inside the public_html folder. It works one dir above nicely ! i.e ROOT

Excellent mod !

Al

[aciurczak]

Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere about how to restore a vB database using a backup made with this mod? I'm assuming it's something like: load the txt file back up to the server to an area where phpmysql can see it, and point phpmysql to the file to rebuild the DB. But if someone could put together a list of:

- here's what you do (including actual sql commands) to restore the db if it all of the tables in one large combined file
- here's what you do to restore the db if the backup is in individual files by table

it might help folks out and make the overall use of this mod a bit more clear.

[Paul M]

If someone has the time to write one, they are free to do so, Im afraid I dont.

[woostar]

At the moment I have a cron setup to do backups, but this causes a 1 - 2 minute lag. Does this use a sleep function to resolve resource hogging on larger databases?

[PHILIPS-08]

thanx for the work mate good mod