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orange:
This is probably a PHP or SQL issue rather than YSE specific, but here we go:

I went into the Admin control panel in order to back up my forum. I clicked the "Dump database" link, then "structure and data".

It started to send me the file, which was fine - but after about 5 minutes the download cut off. (I'd received about 20 MB of the 60 MB database).

I tried again a few times, but it kept cutting me off at about the same time. I adjusted the "set_time_limit" in dump_database.php to 100000 but the same problem happened.

So, I asked my web host - apparently they have a server setting to terminate scripts after 300 seconds and they won't increase it.

So, what's the best way to back up the database? Is there a utility which will dump say 1000 rows at a time, and you could run the script multiple times until it had exported the whole thing? Any experiences?

Bouminok:
if you have shell access, or access to cronjobs, then you can do it via mysqldump:

mysqldump -u<username> -p<password> <database> > database.sql

and then just download that via ftp

Peter Duggan:

--- Quote from: orange on October 18, 2003, 04:02:42 PM ---This is probably a PHP or SQL issue rather than YSE specific
--- End quote ---

It is but, if it wasn't, YaBB SE support is still alive and well. There's a detailed FAQ on saving and restoring the database data at http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?thread=15902 and every support board except the FAQ is still open for further questions!

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