vB Database Backup Pro - Convert to run on vB3.5

This modification is no longer available or supported.

When vb 3.5 first came out I was using this backup system on my 3.0 - and having nothing better to use - I converted it to work on vb 3.5.

Since then I have seen numerous requests for a 3.5 version, and even sent my working version to the guy who apparently bought the rights to it in January. So far no new version has ever been released, though I believe Trigunflame is working on a completely new system.

I cannot (afaik) just release my version, as most of the code is still the original, therefore I have spent a few hours today detailing the (smallish) changes I made in order to make this work, and am now releaseing them as an Add-On to the original hack.

Please note that I do not use the ftp function, zipping function, or the mysqldump option, so i have no idea if they work or not. Also, no existing bugs are fixed.

Unless I missed out an actual conversion step then this is offered as is.

I will not add anything new, or spend any time supporting it. This is done simply to allow people to use the old hack on 3.5 until a new [proper] version is supplied by the relevant people.




History:

v1.6 : Missing elements added.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by oneglory

edit: './backup/'; worked

Yes, it has to be a valid path. I assumed that people actually altered this to their own path as the default is not really a good idea (the backups are available for anyone to download).

[oneglory]

yea mine isn't actually "backup" its named something else, i just put it up here as an example.

[99Percent]

I am still having trouble with this mod. For somereason it is not reading the configuration for the the DB, USER, PASS and HOST, even with the require to config.php added right into the mysqlbackupconfig.php. So it fails over to phpbackup, which I don't want either.

[99Percent]

another correction I am making for mysqlbackup.php:

instead of

if (!$this->TYPE && $this->COMBINE)

it should say:

if ($this->TYPE && $this->COMBINE)

and in mysqlbackupconfig.php
instead of

  If you have selected option 0 to dump specific tables. This 
  option determines whether or not the dumps are Re-Combined

It should say:

  If you did not select option 0 to dump specific tables. This 
  option determines whether or not the dumps are Re-Combined

[Paul M]

This is what happens when you try and find all the changes you made and end up missing bits - this got missed as well;

Find ;

		if (!$this->TYPE && $this->COMBINE)

Replace With ;

		if ($this->MULTIFILE == 0)

Added to file.

[chet]

Cheers Paul

[camoman]

I had this running on 3.0.7 then upgraded to 3.5.4. I have since made the changes listed here and when I execute the task it gives me this error

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: mysqlbackup in /home/****/public_html/forum/includes/cron/cronbackup.php on line 29

and line 29 reads this:

require_once('./includes/adminfunctions.php');$mysqlBackup = &new mysqlBackup($backup, $vbulletin->db);

any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks!

[Paul M]

How have you ended up with a line like that ?

If you have followed the instructions then those two bits of code cannot be be together like that. Somethings wrong with your file and that's almost certainly why it fails.

[camoman]

Thanks for pointing that out.. that part is fixed now..

HOWEVEr, I now get this:

Failover was initiated for MySQLDump Binary & An error occured with configuration. (GZ) alone is not compatible for compressing multiple files into 1 archive. Read Config.

And all tables are backedup sepratley in my backup folder???

I also tried to set it to do a .tar archive adn recieved this error:

Failover was initiated for MySQLDump Binary & An error occured outputing a New Tar Archive with the shell Tar Binary (tar -cS --remove-files -f /home/*****/backup/2006-04-18.tar /home/*****/backup/2006-04-18).

[Paul M]

If you want the table files combined into one file then set the COMBINE option in the config file to 1, not 0.

The rest I cannot help you with - it's functionality of the (original) hack, which I don't support.