How to backup and restore big database without Telnet/SSH

[robin_ge]

Hi! Thank you for reading this thread.
I want to get ready for the upgrade to vB3 next week when vB3 Gold is out.

Currently, I have a database whose size is around 120MB. Some experienced coder on my server forum wrote a script "mysql_utility.php"(attached with this thread) to help us backup and restore database through browser. But it can only handle database file whose size is less than 27MB at once since there is a daemon that kills programs that run too long. And there is a 69000 INSERTS/hour limit on my server too.

My question is how can I fully backup and restore my database? Thank you very much!

[Zachery]

If you have backed up the database you should be able to ask your host to restore it for you

[robin_ge]

I have asked them to restore it for me before and they said they can't handle client's file. :(

[AWS]

Without shell access there really is no way to restore a large db unless you split it up into smaller bits.
Another thing you could try is to put some timeouts in the script. Have it do a little at a time.