WordPress 1.5 Database Manager

I’ve tried every conceivable directory/path structure and have not got it to actually write a file…

As suggested before.. I got it to write and make a backup that isn’t 0 bytes by changing the line:

$backup[‘path’] = ‘..\\wp-backup-db’;

to this

$backup[‘path’] = ABSPATH . ‘wp-backup-db/’;

The previous post gave a path thats hardset .. by using ABSPATH it doesn’t make it server specific, and will just pull your absolute path from the global variable. Or at least that worked for me.

Not exactly sure whats causing people have have 0 byte files, mine makes a backup db thats 10 megs …

thanks for the fix iammike, i will update it.

To everyone who still gets a 0 byte backup file – does your wordpress MySQL database have an empty password ? If it does, then the mysqldump command line contains a ‘-p’ instead of ‘-p <password>’ and hangs. I discovered this on my local dev server – I now have a proper username/password on my dev database and the dump works fine.

Great idea BTW!
Gus

How do we find out where our MYSQLDUMP is?

cool info angusmaccuish, thanks

gnawph: i think is /usr/bin/mysqldump

Yes, empty password here, on a local apache.
I hope this is the only problem. Thanks for letting us know, GaMerZ!

The link above takes us to a download page, at least when I tried it. Before I download something, I want to know a little more. So can you either point me in a direction to a page with more info before downloading or explain more about it here? Sounds neat.

I’m with Lorelle on this one. I keep a link list of sites that offer WP plugins. The links are to the plugin author’s page or post that describes the plugin and offers a download link.

I see on your main blog page you have an article called Updating my WP Plugins. There’s no permalink or I’d have linked to that post. So for now, I’ll link to your blog. I plan to upgrade to WP 1.5 very soon and this plugin will be at the top of the list of plugins for my site!

Doesnt make me a backup, and in the restore window, all the ald backups have the same date from 1969

Im using 1.5

I couldn’t get this to work either. It never made a backup period, let alone one of 0 bytes. I finally gave up. ??

there’s a small issue that worked for me.

Find:
$backup[‘path’] = ABSPATH.’wp-backup-db’;

add the ‘/’ to make it look like this:

$backup[‘path’] = ABSPATH.’wp-backup-db/’;

before this change it wasn’t making any backups on my end either & after, it worked like a charm!

Oh also, thank you very much for the plugin, Gamerz! You are the man!!

Thank you for the tip, bloodylamer! That made it work perfectly for me!

Iammike made this suggestion the other days and Gamerz made the update probably he forgot to add the “/” to the update.