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.

[1quick1]

Hey everyone. I've been using this Mod for a while now and haven't had a single issue until now. This last week or so I get this error message now when it runs and it causes my forum to be shut off until I go in and turn it off and on again. I haven't changed anything so I'm not sure what the problem is and why this just started happening.

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0:

Invalid SQL:
SHOW CREATE TABLE `postedithistory`;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Monday, September 15th 2008 @ 04:01:51 PM
Error Date : Monday, September 15th 2008 @ 04:02:02 PM
Script : http://www.extremebodybuilding.net/f...cron&cronid=35
Referrer : http://www.extremebodybuilding.net/f....php?do=modify

[Paul M]

Perhaps you have a low mysql timeout value.

[1quick1]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Perhaps you have a low mysql timeout value.

I'm on a shared server so I don't get to mess wtih any of those settings (at least I don't think). It's weird cause I haven't had an issue with this mod, even when I used the old one on 3.6.x

My site is pretty small so the backup usually completes really fast. Like 5,000 threads, 50,000 posts, and 3000 members

[Stryker412]

Stupid question but I want this mod to do backups just like vbulletin does. So I would set combine all tables to one file to yes right?

[Paul M]

If thats what vb does then yes.

[Stryker412]

Got it working, thanks.

[TsirhCitna]

I've had a couple of occasions where the board did not get reopened after the backup.

[forsanelhaq]

i want it back up to ftp

where can i find that

[PAKIDIL]

finally i got it working .i was having this erorr : An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing. even i gave my backup folder 777 and also providing the correct path . i have found that the problem was i changed

"Y-m-d"
in to
2008-10-01
Do not Change "Y-m-d" until u get it working for ya

that's why it was showing me this erorr
An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing

Strange . So may be few guyz having this problem due to this edit "Y-m-d".

Installed Now. one thing if any one could tell me how to compress the backup in to zip or gzip ? thanks

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by chadi

Could you possibly add this feature to automatically prune backups older than x amount of days? That would be great.

Would be great if you can add this feature please. Thanks.