vb_backup.sh

[karlm]

How do I use this item?

I'd like to back up the d/b from my 3.6.8 so I can upgrade to 3.7RC1, keeping the back up just in case.

[Jose Amaral Rego]

Does you host let you have access to SSH

• Backing Up The Database via SSH/Telnet

If you have files (attachments) in a file system, then you need to backup those as well.

[karlm]

In the 'do not upload' directory, there's a file called 'vb_backup.sh' and according to the documentation, it's intended to do the back up for you. I've done a back up using SSH previously, but I just wondered how to use this file (as it isn't documented 'how to' use it, only that 'it does this').

[Steve Machol]

Just edit the path at the top of the script and upload it and once its chmod to +755 you can just run ./vb_backup from then on to get a backup.

[karlm]

Just edit the path at the top of the script and upload it and once its chmod to +755 you can just run ./vb_backup from then on to get a backup.

Cracking info Steve... thanks

I'd already figured the change of path, but wasn't sure if i could run it as a webpage or had to invoke it from ssh or suchlike.

Can you give me an idea on how to run it - is it via ssh?
Do I put it under my httpdocs folder or somewhere else?

Sorry for the basic questions, but i'm still lost it seems.

[Jose Amaral Rego]

Try clicking on this image link.


I still can not figure that method of backup, as I use SSh and or the Cron Job
, Auto backups that my host provides.

[Floris]

The vb backup shell script is for .. shell only. Not for web page runnin, etc.

nano -w vb_backup.sh
change the vars, save it

chmod 755 vb_backup.sh

and run it

./vb_backup.sh backup

[karlm]

OK thanks for the tips... sorry, but I'm still not getting this.

I have loaded into httpdocs (public) and chmod to 755.

When I run it, using:

./vb_backup.sh backup

I'm presented with this response:

-bash: ./vb_backup.sh: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

[Steve Machol]

That means you are not running this from the directory that contains that file.

[Floris]

use locate or whereis in the shell to find "bash"

whereis bash
or
locate bash

and find the binary, and edit the .sh file to point to that path/bash

[karlm]

Due to not knowing where else to place the file, I have it located in my httpdocs directory... When I get into ssh, I use 'cd httpdocs' to get to the directory and the 'ls' to list them. The vb_backup file is listed in a green colour while other files have different colours. It appears to be there.

Using the command 'whereis', I get this result:

-bash-3.1$ whereis bash
bash: /bin/bash /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz

This is my current settings:

# Please change this variable to the path to your config.php
path_to_config="/my/path/to/config/mysite.com/httpdocs/includes/config.php"

# If you need the full path to the mysqldump binaries or gzip binaries set below
mysqldumpcmd=mysqldump
gzipcmd=gzip

################# No Editing below this point #################

I have already edited the 'path to config' and the only other one I see to edit is the gzipcmd - is that what I replace the results of the 'whereis'?

[Steve Machol]

If you have access to the shell anyway, why not just your the straight command outlined here?

Backup:

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

Restore:

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

[karlm]

Because I was under the impression that this script would save manually doing it each time, making life a tad easier.

I'm not sure I understand correctly what this is for... or how it is used.

It seems to use it, one must have access to shell - in which case they can just do it manually. What is the point of this?

[Steve Machol]

It's there for people who want to use it. I suspect some will use it with cronjobs, although the mysqldump command line does essentially the same thing.

[Floris]

at the top of the .sh file you will see

#!/bin/bash
####################################################################
# vBulletin 3.6.8 Patch Level 2

You can see #!/bin/bash

If you use whereis and it says it's in /bin/bash
then the line #!/bin/bash is correct.

after chmod 755 vb_backup.sh
and you do ./vb_backup_sh
it should not say bad interp.

try loading bash manually by typing

/bin/bash

and you should get a prompt back and not an error
type exit to quit it.
and you get back in your first shell bash

I see you set:

# Please change this variable to the path to your config.php
path_to_config="/my/path/to/config/mysite.com/httpdocs/includes/config.php"

go into your httpdocs dir, and then into your includes folder
cd
cd httpdocs/includes
and type:

pwd

the result from pwd (example: /home/userx/httpdocs/includes/

is what you set between the " quotes "

of course you edit out /path/to/mysite