Someone's treatening to "dos" my forum because I banned him.
He said he'd take my forum offline with a dosser or something.
Is this possible and do I have to believe him?
That's possible, but is forbidden by law.
Just because it's forbidden doesn't mean they won't.
You should do this anyway, but you should login to phpmyadmin and export/backup your database. You should do this every day preferably. You should ask your host if they support crontab/cronjobs. These can backup your database automatically every day.
Or you can use
emods and these database tools.
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I already made a db backup of today after I heard.
I also asked my host the same question as I ded here and they told me they sued anyone that attacked their servers.
decswxaqz Wrote:Just because it's forbidden doesn't mean they won't.
You should do this anyway, but you should login to phpmyadmin and export/backup your database. You should do this every day preferably. You should ask your host if they support crontab/cronjobs. These can backup your database automatically every day.
You guys got me all scared so I have decided to go and install emods and DBTools and DBArchive. Everything went smoothly.
When I started archiving database I received following error:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /eMods/dbarchive.php on line 348
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When I went back and checked DATA ARCHIVE there was already ARCHIVE made. I have decided to try again, and now it went without error and the newly crerated ARCHIVE file was somewhat larger.
Few hours later I have decided to make another back-up. The same error occur. However, the symptom was similar as the one above. ARCHIVE was created. I tried again and it created another ARCHIVE now without error and somewhat larger that when error occured.
What should I do to avoid the error. My server is quite "busy" so there might be some delay in execution time. Is there a way to extend the time of execution so the warning will not be executed, or error is somewhere else.
I would appreciate help.
Tx.
EB
That would happen when you have a really large database, it can't be backed up in time.
You should open dbarchive.php and after <?php put
ini_set('max_execution_time', 60);
If you still get an error, then change 60 to a higher number. It represents the number of seconds to allow a script to run.