Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Automatic Database Back-up

Automatic Database Back-up

vBulletin 3.5.4
www.vBHackers.com

What this does
This will backup your database using the vBCron system in vBulletin.

To do list...

Time to install: 3 minutes
Queries to run: 0
File Mods: 0
New Files: 1
Templates to edit: 0
Templates to add: 0
New Phrases: 0
New Plugins: 1

Help & Support
Before asking for support Please make sure you have done all necessary changes! If you still need support please post a reply here.

Note
This is a beta hack of mine, please use at your own risk. I use this for this board and I'm going to add a few more options in the future when I have some time.

Please post bugs and errors here. http://www.vbhackers.com/vbugs.php?d...st&hackid=3013 Hope you like, feedback welcomed.

04-09-2006, 03:58 AM

Look for _SERVER["path_translated"] as said in the options ;)

Arnoud · 04-09-2006, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LiveWire

Look for _SERVER["path_translated"] as said in the options ;)

He did: http://www.vbhackers.com/showpost.ph...9&postcount=30 :p

Dr.osamA · 04-09-2006, 04:55 PM

thanks Limewire

Dr.osamA clicks install

04-09-2006, 05:41 PM

Deaths is blind also. :p He didn't look for _SERVER["path_translated"], he looked for _SERVER["PATH"] as he said. :p

Arnoud · 04-09-2006, 05:45 PM

Heh, I thought those were the same. My bad

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_Fatal · 04-09-2006, 11:33 PM

I'm not seein it anywhere's _Server [path_translated]

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Teepeg · 04-17-2006, 11:07 AM

Thank You, works great.

Joey805 · 04-25-2006, 02:35 AM

I finally got this to work however I noticed that my backup file genetrated by this hack is 16mb smaller that my normal forum backup file created when I backup within VB. What would be the reason for this?

Also, do new files get greated each time or are they overwritten? If new ones are created, is there a way to set how long to keep the oldest file before it's deleted?

Thanks

Arnoud · 04-25-2006, 12:00 PM

It might be smaller because it's compressed. To be sure you can simply compare the 2 file's contents with a program like Araxis Merge.

I believe a new file is created every time. I don't think its possible to delete old backups though.

04-26-2006, 05:09 AM

I woudn't recommend compairing the 2. Most text programs will crash if you try opening a back SQL file, if you own a large forum of course.

Could be the comments that vBulletin sets? Im not sure, I've been using this method for years and have never had a problem. As a matter of fact I had to use it when we upgraded to 3.5.4 because I deleted a whole forum by mistake. :p

If you want, you could open 2 test sites and compair the 2 database together. Though I doubt you will find a diffrence. Also, backing up from the admincp is not a very secure and safe way to backup your fourms. When your forums become larger, you will begin to get PHP timeout errors.

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