Questions! Please Help!

[BlueEew]

Hello. I am rather new to running vBulletin. Anyways. I have a couple of questions I would like to ask to the experienced members of this forum. I hope you don't mind answering them for me.

a) What would you recommend I use for creating automatic Back Up. I basically want the Back Ups to be made every X amount of days I choose by it's self.

Concerning the above -

i) If I have a couple of MOD's installed on a forum. When the database is backed up automatically. Are the MOD's also included?

Please explain to me what dose get backed up.

ii) Dose the Back Up progress cause any downtime or dose it take up a lot of bandwidth?

b) I have seen a MOD or something before where it adds an table into a website. You can log in using your forums ID and password and then the forum stats get displayed on the website etc.

If I was logged in, it would say you are logged in there also.

Where can I find this MOD?

c) Are there any MOD's that you would recommend to me to use for any type of forum? Basically MOD's that help all forums in general?

i) Also any good SEO MOD's. I am already planning on using vBSEO when I have the cash. Anything else I may need?

d) Are there any guides that tell and suggest what you change the settings to in the admin panel? Maybe a guide that tells you what not to do?

Sorry about all the questions. I want to achieve as much as possible with my forums.

Thanks,
BlueEew.

[SEOvB]

a) What would you recommend I use for creating automatic Back Up. I basically want the Back Ups to be made every X amount of days I choose by it's self.

Are you planning on backing up files or just the database. I only back up my DB, because all the files are replacable. I use this script and simply run it from the ssh prompt, creates a backup of all your DB's in a cPanel like folder structure.

Doing a full file system backup, needs another script.

i) If I have a couple of MOD's installed on a forum. When the database is backed up automatically. Are the MOD's also included?

Doing DB backups will backup all the mod settings. Doing a full filesystem backup will backup the files needed for the modifications if there are any.

I have seen a MOD or something before where it adds an table into a website. You can log in using your forums ID and password and then the forum stats get displayed on the website etc.

There is TopX stats, and stats in admincp. I'm not sure which you're talking about.

re there any MOD's that you would recommend to me to use for any type of forum? Basically MOD's that help all forums in general?

Not without knowing what type of forum you're running. I do recommend not going modification install happy and just installing every "cool" thing you see. But thats your choice.

i) Also any good SEO MOD's. I am already planning on using vBSEO when I have the cash. Anything else I may need?

vBSEO is about the best one, it pretty much handles everything any software can handle, with a few tempate edits as well.

d) Are there any guides that tell and suggest what you change the settings to in the admin panel? Maybe a guide that tells you what not to do?

Are you looking for vBulletin Optimization Tips? Or just things not to change in the admincp?

[Dismounted]

The only reliable method of backing up and restoring a database is with shell access via telnet or ssh. This is because backing up with a PHP script like that in the Admin CP or phpMyAdmin can result in PHP timeouts errors and an incomplete backup file. Please see the instructions here:

Backup:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...nce_ssh_backup

Restore:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...ce_ssh_restore

P.S. If you don't have shell access, some people have also reported success with these scripts:

MySQLDumper:
http://www.mysqldumper.de/en/index.php

MySQLHotxcopy:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...t=mysqlhotcopy

Bigdump:
http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php

[BlueEew]

Originally Posted by FRDS

Are you planning on backing up files or just the database. I only back up my DB, because all the files are replacable. I use this script and simply run it from the ssh prompt, creates a backup of all your DB's in a cPanel like folder structure.

Doing a full file system backup, needs another script.



Doing DB backups will backup all the mod settings. Doing a full filesystem backup will backup the files needed for the modifications if there are any.



There is TopX stats, and stats in admincp. I'm not sure which you're talking about.



Not without knowing what type of forum you're running. I do recommend not going modification install happy and just installing every "cool" thing you see. But thats your choice.



vBSEO is about the best one, it pretty much handles everything any software can handle, with a few tempate edits as well.



Are you looking for vBulletin Optimization Tips? Or just things not to change in the admincp?

I am looking for Optimization tips, SEO tips, and admincp tops. So if you have anything that you could recommend me reading. Please send me the way.

I will have to find that website to forums MOD I was speaking of. I will try and find a website that uses it.

Originally Posted by Dismounted

The only reliable method of backing up and restoring a database is with shell access via telnet or ssh. This is because backing up with a PHP script like that in the Admin CP or phpMyAdmin can result in PHP timeouts errors and an incomplete backup file. Please see the instructions here:

Backup:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...nce_ssh_backup

Restore:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...ce_ssh_restore

P.S. If you don't have shell access, some people have also reported success with these scripts:

MySQLDumper:
http://www.mysqldumper.de/en/index.php

MySQLHotxcopy:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...t=mysqlhotcopy

Bigdump:
http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php

I have used Bigdump before. I used it to move from phpBB 2 (on a free host) to a phpBB 2 paid host. Then obviously to vBulletin.

I am not going to go mad on MODs. However when I back up I want any MOD setting to be backed up also. The files are not needed, just the settings. So what should I use?

[Jase2]

You can't backup your mod/hack settings as far as I know.

You can back your forums using this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...atabase+backup

For SEO, I suggest you have a look at: www.vbseo.com

[Dismounted]

Modification settings (provided they are stored in the database, which most are), will be backed up when you back up your database.

[SEOvB]

Mines a shell script thats pretty intellgient, backed up a 400MB DB, numerous times with no issues. Anything larger then that, i have no experience, and would recommend what dismounted suggests

[Dismounted]

I also have a shell script that backs up my databases. It automatically deletes backups older than one week.

[BlueEew]

I want a script that backs up the forums database everyday at a certain time. Basically every 24 hours. It would be stored in a folder on my webhost. Then I can download them from there onto my computer when needed.

Something like that. What one do you use Dismounted?

[Dismounted]

I created my own shell script to handle my backups. If you do not have shell access, you can use the scripts that were mentioned in a previous post above.