Installing Sypex Dumper

Sypex Dumper is a PHP script that makes backing up and restoring MySQL databases quick and painless. Unlike most similar tools, it's built for speed and handles databases of any size — from a few kilobytes to hundreds of gigabytes — without breaking a sweat.

• Official website
• Download archive

What Sypex Dumper 2 can do

• Back up and restore MySQL databases using pure PHP — no third-party software required
• Handle databases of any size without performance issues
• Compress backups using Gzip or Bzip2, with configurable Gzip compression levels
• Run multi-stage operations to work around server time limits
• Provide MySQL maintenance tools: check, optimize, and repair tables
• Run from the command line or on a schedule via cron
• Smart charset handling to avoid encoding headaches
• Save backup tasks for quick reuse
• Automatically delete old backup files
• Pause, stop, and resume operations mid-process
• Support multiple users sharing a single script installation
• Run on both Windows and Linux

Installation

1. Download the script archive from the official website.
2. Extract the archive and upload the contents to your site's root directory (public_html) via FTP.
3. Set the correct file permissions:
   • chmod 777 — on the backup directory
   • chmod 666 — on the cfg.php and ses.php files

Getting started

Open the following URL in your browser:

http://your-domain.com/sxd/

Enter your MySQL database credentials and you're ready to go.