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upcoming chaos

so I’ve finally gotten hosting space elsewhere, but it may take me a bit to switch over…expect a hiccup somewhere in the next week or so.
oh, and on that note: I’m having trouble getting to cpanel & phpmyadmin. anybody know any tricks for backing up databases w/out having that access? (I can write […]

so I’ve finally gotten hosting space elsewhere, but it may take me a bit to switch over…expect a hiccup somewhere in the next week or so.

oh, and on that note: I’m having trouble getting to cpanel & phpmyadmin. anybody know any tricks for backing up databases w/out having that access? (I can write PHP, and if I haven’t gotten to it in a day or two, I’ll just guess at what databases I’ve got, and write some scriptage to do it myself. but I’d appreciate any shortcuts, of course.)

7 Responses to “upcoming chaos”

On December 18th, 2004 Elaine said:

I found this script by googling:

php database dump script

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/8913.html
On December 18th, 2004 Elaine said:

You rock. I’ll definitely be taking a look at that.
On December 18th, 2004 Elaine said:

There is a dumper several items down.
On December 18th, 2004 ralph said:

I usually just ssh in to shell and execute the command “mysqldump databasename > databasename.sql”. That of course assumes you’re using MySQL.
On December 19th, 2004 Elaine said:

Ralph,

My webhost doesn’t provide ssh. It is on the list of things I MUST HAVE the next time I switch hosts.
On December 19th, 2004 Elaine said:

That assumes I’ve ever used ssh…which I haven’t. honestly, I’m not sure if they provide it or not…but I’ll look into that, too.
On December 19th, 2004 Elaine said:

Well, I figured out how to use PuTTY, but I don’t have shell access. But at least I learned something.