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.

[Chadi]

I'm still getting the same error even after setting the path in full (/home/username/public_html/foldername) and permissions to 755.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by chadi

I'm still getting the same error even after setting the path in full (/home/username/public_html/foldername) and permissions to 755.

1. check with your host - that may not be the correct path

2. the permissions must be 777, NOT 755

[Paul M]

Also check that you don't have any open_basdir restrictions in php stopping you.

[Chadi]

I do not have that enabled and I followed everything.

What else could be the problem?

[Paul M]

No idea, you have a permission problem on your server somewhere, there is not much we can tell you. I would suggest speaking to your host.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by chadi

I do not have that enabled and I followed everything.

What else could be the problem?

See above.

1. If you entered the path exactly as you posted here, it is almost certainly wrong.

2. If you set the permissions to 755, the directory is NOT write-enabled and this add-on will not work. It must be set to 777.

[Chadi]

Thanks. Out of curiosity is there a swift and rather convenient way to restore the databases (or certain portions) via admincp?

I see the sql files are done per table, which is great but what is the proper way to restore these, aside phpmyadmin?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by chadi

Thanks. Out of curiosity is there a swift and rather convenient way to restore the databases (or certain portions) via admincp?

I see the sql files are done per table, which is great but what is the proper way to restore these, aside phpmyadmin?

It would be great to have a mod (or instructions) on how to restore what has been backed up with this mod.... :up:

Regards,
Badger

[santimariani]

So after changing my host, I was finally able to get this mod to work. Horrah! However, I found something peculiar...

The backup is happening randomly during the day, even though I set it up for it to happen at 4:00 in the morning. I noticed it today when using my forum at around 12:00 pm and noticing that a backup was in progress. Here are the times that the backup folders were created:

06-16-2007 19:05
06-17-2007 15:32
06-18-2007 11:23
06-19-2007 12:40
06-20-2007 11:19
06-21-2007 9:10

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[Paul M]

You're not getting enough visitors to trigger all your cron jobs.