License Expired?

[Vtec44]

Since you're not too familiar with shell, logon to your server via FTP, create a folder somewhere called backup, set the permission on that folder to 777

Use putty to login to your server, go to the new folder, use the command lines below, change all the variables to suit you.

mysqldump --opt -Q -h databa_seserver.com -u user_name -p'password' database_name > mysqldump.sql
 
zip mysqldump.zip mysqldump.sql

Then, download mysqldump.zip and delete the mysqldump.sql

[Dennis Olson]

PuTTY is just a secure version of Telnet. And in Linux, I think you want to use TAR, not ZIP.

[Vtec44]

PuTTY is just a secure version of Telnet. And in Linux, I think you want to use TAR, not ZIP.

Are you going to post up the TAR command for him? I have never used it.

[Dennis Olson]

If he wants to use tar, I have a command available in by backup script. I can paste it onto this thread.

Ahh, what the hey. Here it is:

tar cvf - Filename | compress > /path/filename.Z

[Steve Machol]

You have an inactive leased license that expired last August. You have been running vBulletin illegally since then.

I don't know why your site stopped working, but in order to continue running vB you most renew or purchase another license immediately.