vBProductMaker 1.5.1 – Free vBulletin Product development tool for Windows

April 02: x64 version is available for download!

Version 1.6.0 is released

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vBProductMaker intended to help vBulletin product developers and make it little easy to manage their products and corresponding components. The skill level of users using this tool can vary from novice to advanced web programmers. It is combining code editor with syntax coloring, vBulletin-aware management console and XML builder, in order to produce final XML file which can be imported into vBulletin.

vBProductMaker is using internal file type in order to store and retrieve all information related to your vBulletin product. The file type is defined as .vbu . You can save your product as .vbu file and then later load it, modify and finally export to vBulletin XML product.

As the help contains most of information one can need, I will show several screenshots below.

This is public beta version, feel free to test and report issues.

Requirements: .NET framework 2.0 or later

Download vBProductMaker 1.5.1

Backup your DB and files using batch file

I’ve been given a small task to backup our issue database on daily basis, for which I created a tiny backup file and would like to share with you.

The script below will do the following

1. Create MySQL dump of your database using configuration set
2. Compress files and MySQL dump into single archive file and copy to destination folder
3. It will always create old backup so you always have previous version
4. Copy both old and new backups to network shared resourse

@ECHO OFF
 REM ----------- START OF CONFIGURATION HERE
 SET DESTINATION_FOLDER=c:\dest\
 SET BACKUP_FILENAME=yourBackup.rar
 SET BACKUP_FILENAME_OLD=yourBackup.old.rar
 SET BACKUP_DB_FILENAME=backup.sql
 SET MYSQL_FOLDER=C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.30\bin\
 SET MYSQL_DB_NAME=yourdbname
 SET MYSQL_DB_USER=yourdbuser
 SET MYSQL_DB_PASS=yourdbpass
 SET NETWORK_PATH=\\your_backup_pc_ip\path
 SET NETWORK_USERNAME=your_backup_pc_user
 SET NETWORK_PASSWORD=your_backup_pc_pass
 REM ----------- END OF CONFIGURATION HERE

CD %~dp0

%MYSQL_FOLDER%mysqldump.exe -u %MYSQL_DB_USER% -p%MYSQL_DB_PASS% %MYSQL_DB_NAME% >%BACKUP_DB_FILENAME%
 ECHO DB Done

rar a %BACKUP_FILENAME% @files.lst > NUL
 @del %DESTINATION_FOLDER%%BACKUP_FILENAME_OLD% 2>NUL
 @rename %DESTINATION_FOLDER%%BACKUP_FILENAME% %BACKUP_FILENAME_OLD% 2>NUL
 copy %BACKUP_FILENAME% %DESTINATION_FOLDER% > NUL
 ECHO Files Done

@del %BACKUP_FILENAME% 2>NUL
 @del %BACKUP_DB_FILENAME% 2>NUL
 ECHO Removing Temporary Files Done

ECHO Accessing Network...
 net use %NETWORK_PATH% %NETWORK_PASSWORD% /user:%NETWORK_USERNAME%
 copy %DESTINATION_FOLDER%%BACKUP_FILENAME% %NETWORK_PATH% > NUL
 copy %DESTINATION_FOLDER%%BACKUP_FILENAME_OLD% %NETWORK_PATH% > NUL
 ECHO Network Copy Done

ECHO All Done

To make backup regular I’ve used Cron NT service for Windows because I honestly don’t like Windows Scheduler and always disable it
Here is the crontab line that suits my needs.

10 23 * * * cmd /c C:\wamp\backup\backup.bat

This will backup my stuff every day at 23:10.

That's pretty much it.
Cheers!