(Guide) How to backup a VBulletin board

[Santa]

hint hint :shifty:


http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...nce_ssh_backup (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/maintenance_ssh_backup) gives you everything you need to perform a faultless backup.


Backing Up The Database via SSH/Telnet In order to back up your database via SSH or Telnet you will require 2 things:

1) SSH (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/what_is_ssh) or Telnet (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/what_is_telnet) access to your site. You will need to check with your hosting company to see if this is available.

2) An SSH/Telnet Client, such as PuTTy.

Open your SSH/Telnet client and log into your website. The command line prompt you will see will vary by OS.
For most hosting companies, this will bring you into the FTP root folder.

Type in the following:

mysqldump --opt -Q -u dbusername -p databasename > /path/to/backupname.sql

You will be prompted for the database password. Enter it and the database will backup.

If your hosting company has you on a remote MySQL server, such as mysql.yourhost.com, you will need to add the servername to the command line. The servername will be the same as in your config.php. The command line will be:

mysqldump --opt -Q -h servername -u dbusername -p databasename > /path/to/backupname.sql

You can then, if you wish, download the backup to your home computer.

:naughty:

[tesco]

:unsure: Why are you telling us this?

[Rip The Jacker]

hint hint :shifty:
Oh jeez. :ohmy:

He joins the forum just now, tells us how to backup the board, then uses the shifty smilie. This can't be good!

[tesco]

bah, he doesn't have time to hack the board, his wife just had a baby. :P

[Rip The Jacker]

Oh it's zed? That's different. :P

I just can't keep up with his usernames...

[RPerry]

bah, he doesn't have time to hack the board, his wide just had a baby. :P

Don't you think he might take offense to his other half being called wide ?? :huh:

[Virtualbody1234]

bah, he doesn't have time to hack the board, his wide just had a baby. :P
His wide? :ohmy:

[tesco]

Why are you guys making up fake quotes? :cry:

[RPerry]

Why are you guys making up fake quotes? :cry:

its quite alright, I took screenshots of the un-edited posts, I had a hunch your memory of editting it might fade :P

[tesco]

Why are you guys making up fake quotes? :cry:

its quite alright, I took screenshots of the un-edited posts, I had a hunch your memory of editting it might fade :P
:unsure: What's that? You photoshopped some screenshots of the post? :ohmy:

[Rip The Jacker]

Ohhh! I'm telling zed! :P

[RPerry]

its quite alright, I took screenshots of the un-edited posts, I had a hunch your memory of editting it might fade :P
:unsure: What's that? You photoshopped some screenshots of the post? :ohmy:

nope, don't even have photshop installed :P

btw, moved to the lounge before Ike pops in :dry:


:P

[Santa]

apart from getting kicks out of my wifes wideness (which is rapidly decreasing)
have you lords of this place actually backup'ed board recently?

[tesco]

apart from getting kicks out of my wifes wideness (which is rapidly decreasing)
have you lords of this place actually backup'ed board recently?
I've asked rookie a couple times and he says that his server guys backup the board daily.

And if they don't and something happens to the board then we kill rookie :lol:

edit: Anyway this might be a joke but it's still a guide so......

[tesco]

Un-moved as guide was just copy/pasted :dry:

[Santa]

i hate those lazy cut%paste type of people http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/images/smilies/dry.gif
anyway this thread was spammed to the hilt by the elite :kiss:

[manker]

have you lords of this place actually backup'ed board recently?
I've asked rookie a couple times and he says that his server guys backup the board daily.Haha, nice joke, Ross.


Now, could you back up the board, please :mellow:

[tesco]

I've asked rookie a couple times and he says that his server guys backup the board daily.Haha, nice joke, Ross.


Now, could you back up the board, please :mellow:
I cant, the server guys have to. :frusty:

[manker]

Haha, nice joke, Ross.


Now, could you back up the board, please :mellow:
I cant, the server guys have to. :frusty:Can't you get permission to do it? Just in case.

The server guys are rubbish, I don't trust them to make back-ups. They didn't the last couple of times we needed them.

Also, they took months to do something simple like put the clock right - and wtf is a server guy :dry:

[tesco]

I cant, the server guys have to. :frusty:Can't you get permission to do it? Just in case.

The server guys are rubbish, I don't trust them to make back-ups. They didn't the last couple of times we needed them.

Also, they took months to do something simple like put the clock right - and wtf is a server guy :dry:
A guy who runs the server I guess. :huh:

[Guillaume]

I thought we had server gnomes here. :unsure:

[JPaul]

Server Guy = Waiter

You foreign Jonnies can be soooo funny sum thymes.

[DanB]

Also, they took months to do something simple like put the clock right - and wtf is a server guy :dry:


which is now wrong again :pinch:

[RPerry]

Also, they took months to do something simple like put the clock right - and wtf is a server guy :dry:


which is now wrong again :pinch:

maybe their cmos battery is bad :rolleyes:

[tesco]

which is now wrong again :pinch:

maybe their cmos battery is bad :rolleyes:
Probably is. :rolleyes: