albinoAZN Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I've accidentally deleted the database that my forum was on . I am a lazy person who never does backups, so all the data is completely lost. I was wondering if there was a way to have the server automatically make backups for the database that my forum is on and then maybe email the backup file to me. I found the following tool at invisionize http://tools.invisionize.com/db/index.php/f/6204 bad thing is that it's only <= 2.0.X Was wondering if you guys could possibly help me out with a version for 2.1.X, maybe point me in the right direction also, a quote from someone in the topic of the afore mentioned tool ok, here are my conclusions : first of all, the password input routine is wrong... there is not even an ELSE there it justs ends vionently the script... PLUS, it is NOT working at all i deleted the part of the pass input to test the program as is it works. zips SQL to GZ... inflating etc etc BUT it has a limit of 8072 KBYTES ! This means it STOPS with a timeout after a while... this is useless for me ( my SQL is 40MB - zipped ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 As far as I know, your host does not take backups of your databases and or files. It is gone. You may email them to be sure, but 98% will not do backups for you. Sorry, i did that once myself Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albinoAZN Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 sorry, it seems i wasn't very clear. I know that the info is gone. I've already started building it back up. I am wondering if there is a tool/script that can take a backup of the forum database, and email it to me every, say..., 3 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I'd prefer to make manual backups myself, that way I know nothing can really go wrong...and if something does go wrong, then it's my fault; not the hosts. I'm not sure that such a tool exsits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomos Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 You have cpanel? It only takes a ciuple of mins there to do a full backup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Yeah, I use cPanel for my backups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomos Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 yep, its easy to do, only takes a couple of seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I am wondering if there is a tool/script that can take a backup of the forum database, and email it to me every, say..., 3 days. Yes. You can use cronjobs. These are used to complete a certain task every set amount of time. Im not very familiar with them at all, but you can try googleing it. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albinoAZN Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 thanks perry, you answered my question. the other guys were just carrying on their own convo I have cpanel, and know it only takes a few minutes, but I can't remember to do it every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Great Glad i could help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashgear Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 albinoAZN if you dont rember to make backups everday switch to a host that does to backups eachday.. as mine does they do free hosting or you can do paid.. which i have.. go check it out www.x10hosting.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 That is a very generous host I wish mine did, but i do mine beofre installing anything etc, so its all good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshiteru Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 I use PHPMyAdmin and just backup the sql around once a week or when someone threatens to spam my boards with 1000 posts of tubgirl and goatse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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