Modification Name: UBB Backup

Author(s): Weird Al

Description: Allows you to backup UBB directories via the CP

Demo: none (CP Mod)

Requirements: 6.6.x + & Mod Wordlets Mod Installed

Download Link: https://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/upload/00020028/Backup6.6.zip

Credits: Charles Capps for fixing my final bug

Instructions / Other Info: Remember to navigate between tabs ONLY via submit buttons, not by clicking the tabs

thanks Al

Al, you should make it so that the other backup path is shown in the backup mod

Thanks Al, you are great!!!!!!!!!!!

ahhh, go on *blush*

Shouldn't the credits say: RandyM for bringing it up over and over and over again till we couldn't stand to hear it one more time?

j/k, you did a great job on this. Thank you.

Hi Al,

the delete function does not work, the files are still at my server....

Mine too. Thanks for bringing this up. I hadn't thought to look.

lemme look at it

Zip updated. The only step that changed was the one in cp2_vars.cgi, so you only need to rehack that step

I do believe he's got it, :insertwo0tsmiliehere:

Hello,

I get the following error when I want to build in the backup-hack in 6.7 Final:

Fatal error:

(RequireCode) /home/www/web17/html/cgi-bin/cp2_vars.cgi: Global symbol "%vars_wordlets_mods" requires explicit package name at /home/www/web17/html/cgi-bin/cp2_vars.cgi line 1256.
Global symbol "%vars_wordlets_mods" requires explicit package name at /home/www/web17/html/cgi-bin/cp2_vars.cgi line 1287.
Compilation failed in require at /home/www/web17/html/cgi-bin/ubb_lib.cgi line 918.


What's wrong?

you don't have the Wordlets Mod installed like it requires.

ups thank you.... hehe, why do you change your public Name Al?

cause my name is actually Ian

I installed this on 6.6.1 and get the following error when I click "backup your UBB":

Backup your UBB
The page and/or tab you requested is unavailable. The required code could not be properly loaded. Please ensure that all scripts, libraries, and templates have been properly uploaded.

» Control Panel Home

make sure you uploaded cp2_backup.pl to the templates folder

D'oh! I forgot about that. Anyhow, it works! This is an awesome mod!

Why do I always feel like I'm swimming in mud--trying to figure out how the hell to work these things?!

I installed the backup. It creates a zip file. I download the zip file ... I cannot get the freakin' zip file to open up!

It either doesn't recognize it as a zip file OR it keeps wanting to "add" to the zip file ...

I get a weird suffix, too --> other.backup.3.8.2004.tar.gz

So ... what am I doing wrong now?!

That isn't a zip file - it's a gzipped tar.

Winzip knows how to deal with tars, and it knows how to deal with gzips, and most of the time it knows how to deal with gzipped tars... but browsers tend to uncompress the file while saving it, which confuses Winzip - it sees a .gz file, but it isn't a gzip file.

Rename it and get rid of the .gz extension. Winzip should open it fine after you do so.

Um, Charles? You are talking Greek to me.

I have tried to change the name ... remove the extension, etc.

When I do, winzip won't recognize it.

How do I get the backup file to be *just* a zip file and not one of these other things?

think of a gzip file as a compressed file, think of tar as a zip file, winzip doesn't like it when the two are used together and tends to die...

Go snag WinRar from www.rarsoft.com and untar the file (unzip). As your server is most likely on a unix/linux machine it can tar and it can global zip, but it can't just zip (unless you play with it to do so).

Woo-HOO! Thanks, Gizzy! That seems to have done the trick!

I can talk down to anyone and they think me for it ...

this works with 6.7.n?

yep

thankie.... I need to make use of it before moving to any other software

I just tar my files myself :nod: