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.

[gedr80]

great hack thx

[static-skillz]

I downloaded this and it was Y-M-d in the config, just an fyi.

[elrafei]

thanks

but i have this error

An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

what can i do ?

[seax19]

Originally Posted by elrafei

thanks

but i have this error

what can i do ?

It is mentioned a bunch of times in this thread that this means either the path you put in config file is not being found, has not got write (777) permission or theres a permission issue at the server/host end. I set this up for a test run on my system and got that error many times, it was finally solved by using absolute path to the backup folder instead of relative as was suggested previously. It is working now and I think I'm probably going to keep it

[elrafei]

Originally Posted by seax19

It is mentioned a bunch of times in this thread that this means either the path you put in config file is not being found, has not got write (777) permission or theres a permission issue at the server/host end. I set this up for a test run on my system and got that error many times, it was finally solved by using absolute path to the backup folder instead of relative as was suggested previously. It is working now and I think I'm probably going to keep it

thanks seax19

i did this

have got write (777) permission to folder backups in my www

this folder on

/home/myuser/public_html/backups/


but nothing happen

the error still appear

i change it to

mysite/backups/

but the error still appear too ..

[kevcj]

Thank you Paul, yet another A+ modification.

[megatop78]

i installed this and gave the directory permissions. Everything works fine.. it even shows "The Backup was completed successfully", but when the backup is completed and i browse to the backup directory. I find nothing inside it. Can you tell me where i am going wrong ??

[BigJohnny]

im having a problem with it not running automatically, unless i missed a setting somewhere to set how often it backs up, but according to the cron script it should be every day.

[alkank]

I installed as shown here but I have no idea about where the output will be? and how will we restore when the forum crashes?

thank you.

[GlamRockTalk]

This mod ROCKS!

Another clutch mod by Paul. Thanks!