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.

[Paul M]

Glad you got it sorted, what did you do ?

Re timeouts in general (previous posts) - I'm pretty sure it's not a php timeout that is causing them to fail, I suspect some hosts have set timeouts on mysql queries and this is kicking in.

[alraqee]

with me every thing going fine now

you are right about some hosts to set timeouts

i needs only to try it more than once befor it success ... mmmm i used the forumpath.php which comes with vbadvance to get the full path ....

i got this error at the begining: MySQL backup. Details (Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.)

then i made some modification on mysqlbackupconfig.php likr you said:

changing this:

PHP Code:

$backup['DUMP_PATH']    = DIR.'/../../backups/'; 


to this:

PHP Code:

$backup['DUMP_PATH']    = '/dir/to/backup/in/the/admincp/'; 


(full path wich comes in the forumpath.php

ofcourse I have chommoded the folder to 777....

when ever it stops you just need to refresh the frame only to start again

it works fine ... thank paul .... than you very much

[paidtoshop]

Thanks Paul.

I have installed this on a windows platform. No problems what so ever. Workes a treat.

paidtoshop

[mcyates]

i'm getting this error;

Warning: include_once(/home/myfootba/public_html/./includes/cron/databack.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /weather/cronadmin.php on line 108

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/myfootba/public_html/./includes/cron/databack.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /weather/cronadmin.php on line 108

Done

But i don't know why? Please help

[Paul M]

databack.php is not a file related to this modification, it belongs to something else.

[mcyates]

ok that must have been another one, but with yours i get this error:

An error occured during the MySQL backup. Details (Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.)

[hal05]

Works great! Is there an option to gzip the files?

[Spikeman]

Thanks nice mod

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by hal05

Works great! Is there an option to gzip the files?

No, there are no compression options in this Lite version.

[BS5]

This hack is great and solves many things with some web hosting providers that gives you backup and restore by money.

Thanks