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dutchbb
Thu 10th Mar '05, 4:08pm
We needed to transfer 5 databases to another server, so I looked at the (very good) manual here at vbulletin.

Only problem was my old host has no telnet access, they have some programm called 4psa to make a backup of the whole website and data.
So I needed to make a backup and manually restore it in the other server.
ok 1 day for downloading it, another day for uploading it!
another day before I get answer from my new host (for some reason they don't answer support during the day , only in the evening)

Now I'm waiting for their reply... 4 days later while normally this should only take 20 minutes from what I have heared.

My question is: 4psa makes 1 mysql file from 5 databases, is this normal and can this be restored in 5 new databases on my new server?

Never done this before and I hope I never have to do this again :(

decostop
Thu 10th Mar '05, 8:38pm
how large are the databases? Can you get your host to run the mysqldump command and put the file someplace you can download it (or wget it from your new server). If the databases are small...try the database backup in vb admincp.