Changing database in Forum Preferences & Settings

[artfag]

Its not letting me.  Someone Installed another YABB on the same server and it installed the same database, so I am trying to change mine, so I dumped my yabbse database over to another one but in the preferences and settings its not letting me change the database name... is there any reason for this?

[Ben_S]

dunno but do it directly from setting.php

[artfag]

Okay, that fixed the first problem... now my second problem is properly backing up the database with the posts and all..
Is there a way to back all that up directly through YABBSE??  Cause I THOUGHT I did it through PHP My ADMIN but that's being a ho.  
:-( My server admin's girlfriend is in town.. so I'm all lost ...


Or does anyone know how to rename databases?  I know this is kinda.. out of the realm of yabbse but you guys are all smart cats.. thanks.

[Ben_S]

I use http://www.phpmybackup.com to do backups.

As for renaming databases, I have no idea, maybe delete and recreate it?

[artfag]

Hmm.. Guh! Configuring more software on the server! oh nos!    The dump just seemed to give me a bunch of 1KB files which was really weird, perhaps I can try this again.. I think I can do this with Telnet.. or something.