Help please TY !!

[Fivestones]

I am going to buy a vBulletin Monday and i would like to know if i can use a program named Total Commender to save stuff from the database?? My sever will be at Go Daddys!!


If i am not allowed to ask would a mod delete this part !! I have been looking at all this and i dont know 1 thing about it !! And if there is any one that would won't to help show me some thinks Please let me know !! Fivestones!!

[Steve Machol]

Sorry I have no idea what Total Commander is or what stuff you mean. Please explain.

[TomJames]

Do you mean this (http://www.ghisler.com/)?

[Fivestones]

Total Commander 7.04a i was told will save zip files and attachments from your database!!

After i get my site set up and the files and stuff added to it i wont some thing to save my stuff to if the sever was to go down !! then when sever comes back on i have not lost my files and attachment and all info !! TY for a very fast Reply to my Question !!

[Steve Machol]

The only consistently 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 timeout errors and an incomplete backup file.

Please see the instructions here:

Backup:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/maintenance_ssh_backup

Restore:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/maintenance_ssh_restore

If you don't have telnet or SSH access, some people have reported success with these scripts:

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

MySQLHotxcopy:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134821&highlight=mysqlhotcopy

[Fivestones]

Steve,,

Thank you for helping me so fast !!

The Backup Link and the MySQLDumper: look like the way to go Thanks !! Fivestones

[Fivestones]

Do you mean this (http://www.ghisler.com/)?


Yes Tom that is what i was talking about thanks for the link to it !! I am new to all this and i have a lot to learn !! I was asking a owner of vBulletin some stuff and this is what he told me to get !!

Do you think it is a good program for vbulletin or not !! Thanks !! Fivestones

[TheSonic]

You can use Total Commander's FTP-Features to upload the vBulletin-Files to your server or backup this files from your host.

But Total Commaner will not backup any databases. You have to dump the database (see the tools above) and than you can download the dump-files with Total Commander from your FTP-Site.

[Fivestones]

TheSonic,,

Hello ,,, This is the one you mean for me to use is this right ??

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

[TheSonic]

Yes, you can use MySQL-Dumper to backup your database... In this case, you do not need Total Commander, because MySQL-Dumper will allow you to download the MySQL-Dump directly.

(As stated above, you can still have to use an FTP-Client (eg. TC) to upload the vBulletin-files (php, images, etc) ).