Soran

Thank you Bruce, yes passive mode is enabled. Which other ftp clients would you suggest? ( it would be good if the client would free too... )

I have the same problem, and i use SmartFTP too ( v1.0.969 ). Now, while a solution with zipping / uploading / unzipping via cpanel is better than nothing, i'm not really satisfied with it, it's not very convenient, i can upload it on other webserver without any problems, and it worked with TCH before too. Will this problem be solved?

Well... if i ever would need to restore a database( i do hope that it will not happen often ), it will be an emergency situation, thus i just wouldn't have the time to ask support to restore it. ( no matter how fast the support is, it still costs additional time ) If i need to restore a DB, it probably means that my forum is down, and i would want to bring it back ASAP. So i wouldn't be really happy to see asking support in this case as planed solution for restore. I wouldn't like to test the patience of my forum members, because i know how it feels when my favorite forum is down ( horrible / i miss the "cry" smiley )

Not sure if it should be called parsing, but here is an example of what i see in my browser during/after restore: Restore ( upload not included ) took about 3:30 ( may be part of this time was used just for building the site to display after resore ) and during this time my poor athlon tb 1G was at 100%, so i try to figure out what happens if i upload not 3 mb db ( 500 kb gzip ), but a 100 mb db ( 15-20 mb gzip )

Hi Don! Thank you for your answer and a warm welcome Anyway the upload limit is not vBulletin related, i'm just asking about the limits of restore functionality in general. Basicly i just would like to know what is the size of the biggest databases which you or other people here restore via /frontend/x/backup/ ( Backup link in CPanel ) Also, could i run into some troble during resore via /frontend/x/backup/ if there are some very long INSERT's ( for example if a big file is stored in the database, like 5-10 mb or even bigger ), is there any limit for the size of a single INSERT? The 3rd question is also not about script but the same /backup/ page in CPanel ( or accessable via CPanel ) - on restore the complete code of the backup is displayed ( at least by default ), i just would like to know if there is any way around so it would not be displayed. By the way, it parses HTML tags, so that i see many input boxes and alike ( since some tables in the database contain HTML code ). I'm just afraid what happens if i the database is much bigger, the browser (or even Windows) might just crash trying to display a site that's 100-200 mb big ( while gzip backup is might be just 15-40 mb )

OK, i found out why restore via /frontend/x/backup/ didn't worked : it was a minus sign ( - ) in the file name! Anyway it's quite irritating that there is no appropriate warning / error message. But since my statement about restore via /frontend/x/backup/ was wrong, i apologize! Still i have some questions... What is the file size limit for upload/restore via /frontend/x/backup/ ? ( for gzip file or the unzipped content inside ) Could it cause some trouble if i have few big files in the database? ( 5-10 mb ) Is there some way to make the backup/restore application not to display the complete script in browser? ( CPU load is 100% for 1-2 minutes during the 2nd phase of restore on my computer... ( Athlon TB 1G, 512 ram ) and it's just a 3 mb database ( 500 kb gzip ), i'm afraid that my PC might just crash if i have to restore a 100 mb database ( from 15 mb gzip ) one day... )

Hi! My vBulletin database became corrupt, and i tried to restore it - but no luck. I get : #1153 - Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' It's till a small forum, actually not even "live" yet, i still test administration/moderation/etc. The SQL file is less than 3 MB I tried to split this sctipt, and found out that admin log table is bigger than 1 MB and can not be splitted. May be someone from TCH could restore this DB for me, but this is actually not what i need. I need to be able to restore my DB myself any time of day and night if i need it, without asking TCH support. So my question: is it possible? I didn't have a backup made with "Backup" function ( i mean the site /x/backup ) , just a backup made in phpMyAdmin , but would it really help it i had a default backup? I have a backup from other ISP ( created on the backup site of CP, very similar DB ), i tried to restore it here, and it does not work , after the upload finishes, a "Restoring Database" message is displayed and nothing more happens. I really need a long term solution for this problem, because i can't accept not being able to restore(alone) a legit vBulletin database, and it's even not a big forum.... Sincerely, Soran