[SolidMean] ForumBackup 1.3.01

[SneakyDave]

SneakyDave submitted a new resource:

[SolidMean] ForumBackup - Schedule backups of your database and XenForo root directory

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This is a great option for sites that currently don't have a scheduled backup routine in place for their XenForo installation.

This addon, once installed, will backup your database and forum directory as 2 separate files to a location of your choosing, preferably outside of the forum root. You can choose the name of the backup files, and the date format to append to the filename. You can also choose how often to backup your forum (daily, weekly, etc.) via the cron...

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[Eagle]

Great idea. Did you test it?

 

[Pinn]

Not work on 1.4

exec() has been disabled for security reasons

XenForo_Application::handlePhpError()
exec() in SolidMean/ForumBackup/Install.php at line 74
SolidMean_ForumBackup_Install->_installVersion1() in SolidMean/ForumBackup/Install.php at line 62
SolidMean_ForumBackup_Install::build()
call_user_func() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 215
XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXml() in ConvEss/Model/AddOn.php at line 24
ConvEss_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXml() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 169
XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXmlFromFile() in XenForo/ControllerAdmin/AddOn.php at line 187
XenForo_ControllerAdmin_AddOn->actionInstall() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 347
XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 134
XenForo_FrontController->run() in /www//admin.php at line 13

 

[Sunka]

Could you add options to choose to backup forum directory or not, couse it will be nice that we can backup database on daily, and forum directory not often like database.
Forum directory is choosen by where xenforo is installed or on some another critery? My forum is installed in root directory

 

[Mr. Goodie2Shoes]

Not work on 1.4

exec() has been disabled for security reasons...

Your host has safe mode enabled or blacklisted 'exec'... not related to XenForo

 

[Mike Edge]

Looks great Dave. Would like to see an option to save database only.

 

[SneakyDave]

Great idea. Did you test it?

On 3 of my xenforo sites on 2 different hosts, and another site I know of on another host.

Looks great Dave. Would like to see an option to save database only.

Great idea.

Not work on 1.4

Yes, it looks like your host has disabled the exec() function on your system. I assume you're on shared hosting?

 

[theraptor]

Now this is an addon that i awaited for thank you alot.

 

[Mike Edge]

Works but I get an error in acp error logs

XenForo_Exception: Bad return code from tar gzip, Output: /home/test/public_html/, Command: tar czvf /home/test/backups/testboard/forumbackup_2014-09-13-225034.code.tar.gz /home/test/public_html - library/SolidMean/ForumBackup/CronEntry/Backup.php:207
Generated By: admin, 1 minute ago

Everything saved correctly though.

 

[SneakyDave]

Could you add options to choose to backup forum directory or not, couse it will be nice that we can backup database on daily, and forum directory not often like database.

That's a good idea, I'll look into that.

Forum directory is choosen by where xenforo is installed or on some another critery? My forum is installed in root directory

It's an absolute path, so it can be anywhere on your server that your web server has write access to.
If your forum exists at /home/sunka/public_html/, you should create a directory above public_html such as /home/sunka/backups, allow your web server to write to it (maybe chmod 0777 /home/sunka/backups), and specify that directory as the backup location.

You could use the "data" or "internal_data" directories in your forum root, but somebody could download the backup files if they knew the name of it. Choose your backup names wisely if you choose to do this!

Works but I get an error in acp error logs

XenForo_Exception: Bad return code from tar gzip, Output: /home/test/public_html/, Command: tar czvf /home/test/backups/testboard/forumbackup_2014-09-13-225034.code.tar.gz /home/test/public_html - library/SolidMean/ForumBackup/CronEntry/Backup.php:207
Generated By: admin, 1 minute ago

Your system must not like something about your tar command, or there might be a warning being generated from it. Can you turn on debug, and run it, and send me the output of it in a conversation? Or you can execute that tar command yourself, and see if its generating a warning?

Using exec() is troublesome to debug because a lot of times the output isn't saved when there's a warning or error.

 

[Mike Edge]

Log is clean (sending it now anyway) and no error executing the tar command manually. Seems it just doesn't like something the cron is triggering.

 

[kingston]

What would have to be done to do this towards Dropbox?

 

[SneakyDave]

Not sure. Probably a lot of work. I'll do some investigation.

 

[Sheratan]

An auto upload to dropbox is a great. But this addon is already great anyway.

 

[Robru]

Nice addon
Tonight the first run !

 

[SneakyDave]

Nice addon
Tonight the first run !

You can run it manually from the Tools -> Cron Entries page too to make sure it works.

The next version will have the option to only backup the database or code, and fix a couple bugs that @Mike Edge pointed out to me

 

[SneakyDave]

SneakyDave updated [SolidMean] ForumBackup with a new update entry:

Update 1.0.1

09/14/2014: Version 1.0.1
- Added option to only update database and/or forum root.
- Added separate options of the number of copies to keep for database and code backups.
- Better verification of the backups being created. Backup file existence and file length are checked for validity.
- Fixed bug of board not being turned back on if backup fails.
- Errors in mysqldump or the tar/gzip will now be exported to the debug file, if enabled.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[SneakyDave]

Update 1.0.1 released. See release notes for more information.
Make sure to visit the add-ons options page, new ones have been added.

 

[TheBoss]

Looking very good , what would make it really worth installing for me would be the ability to upload backups offsite , like MySQLDumper..

 

[Sheratan]

How long my site will be in maintenance mode? Will my site open again automatically after backup process?