Latest version: Beta 3.1

Translations (Version)
German: Beta 3.1
Dutch: Beta 3
Russian: Beta 2

Here's a mod that should be useful to everyone. It allows you to select what YaBB directories to backup and then allows you to run backups in the Admin Center.

If you've seen any of my other mods, you'll notice that this started at Beta 1 rather then 1.0. While my other mods are fairly simple by comparision, this depends on the system configuration and platform differences. I also haven't tested this as much as I could. Please help by reporting good and bad experiences along with your server's OS and what method used.

Features:
- Select just what you want backed up
- Support for .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .zip formats
- All methods implemented as Perl modules and as system() calls. This means that there should be a method working for everyone.
- Autodetected methods. Only the ones supported will be shown.

To install:
Use BoardMod like normal
Upload Languages/English/YaBB2Backup.lng (in zip)
Upload AdminIndex.pl, Admin/AdminSublist.pl, Admin/ModList.pl (changed files)
Upload Admin/YaBB2Backup.pl (in zip)
Upload Modules/Archive/Tar.pm (in zip) if you want it
Upload Modules/MIME/Lite.pm (in zip) if you want it
Make a Backups directory (default is ./Backups) and chmod it 777 or 755. I strongly advise using a .htaccess file with this. (.htaccess is included as of Beta 3)

Modules supported / directly used:
Archive::Tar (pure Perl implementation and included in zip)
Compress::Bzip2
Compress::Zlib
Archive::Zip
MIME::Lite (appears to be pure Perl so it's included in the zip), optional

Binary methods supported:
As of Beta 2, $ENV{'PATH'} is searched for the following binary methods:
tar, gzip, bzip2, zip

I also plan to add support for a native Win32 binary method (likely pkzip) as the modules are generally slow.

Version History:
Beta 3.1 (YaBB 2.0/2.1): Bugfixes for Beta 3, and German, Dutch, and partial Russian language files included.
Beta 3 (YaBB 2.0/2.1): Added "Manage Backups" area to download, delete, or email. Fixed problem with autodetecting paths to binary versions of tar, bzip2, gzip, zip. Added MIME::Lite to mod package, as well as the Backups/ directory. (February 11th, 2006)
Beta 2 (YaBB 2.0/2.1): Fixed bug with getting to the backup area. Added support for tar, bzip2, gzip, and zip anywhere in PATH. Added Archive::Tar to the mod package. Added timing of your backup. (December 17th, 2005)
Beta 1 (YaBB 2.0/2.1): Mod package made available on BoardMod. (December 13th, 2005)

Well I will be adding these to my test mods for today.

Thanks. 

how about incremental backups implementation?
that would be nice to have an opportunity to backup only those files, which were changed since last full backup (especially useful when dumping contents of such a huge folders like  messages and uploads!)

Bigguy wrote on Dec 14^th, 2005 at 5:05pm:


Cool, hope it goes well.

TheSkier wrote on Dec 15^th, 2005 at 12:09am:


Incremental could be done. I could copy it and make the incremental on top of the new one, which is probably how I'd do it. It'd be an option, of course.

As for Attachments, it seems odd that it's caught under the yabbfiles one path... I may make a separate entry for it later.

Quote:


You're right, except the random number is actually the value of the "time" function in Perl. So you can sort by filename and the largest number is the most recent and the smallest is the oldest. (You can also use a program to figure out what the time really is).

Here is a perl time converter just enter the file name is the box to convert
http://perlprogrammers.com/scripts/unix_time/ut.cgi

bug found. in yabb2backup.mod file, last step has wrong name for AdminIndex.pl action call
it will look for:
/cgi-bin/yabb2/AdminIndex.pl?action=YaBB2Backup
instead of:
./cgi-bin/yabb2/AdminIndex.pl?action=backupsettings

i.e. it will kick you off to main Admin screen because "YaBB2Backup" action doesn't exist!

here is the correction:

find:

	$yabb2backup = 'YaBB2Backup|YaBB 2 Backup|Backup your forum|';
	push (@boardmod_mods, $yabb2backup); 

replace with:

	$yabb2backup = 'backupsettings|YaBB 2 Backup|Backup your forum|';
	push (@boardmod_mods, $yabb2backup); 

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anyway, my local test server completely hung on backup attemp!

AK108 wrote on Dec 15^th, 2005 at 2:14am:

Archive::Tar (its in windows)
will check /bin/tar on real server

Quote:


Hi,
I try to run this script. But I don't know, how
or where to place the url

##########################################################################

#  Enter URL to this script
my $script_url = "http://$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}$ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'}";

##############################################################