after restoring a backup created with this product, my database was completely screwed up

this product has a charset bug somewhere, don't use it

I have created a simple cron job instead and it makes proper backups

Utter nonsense.

I have restored backups from this for many years, without a single issue, as have many many other people.

Are you saying I'm lying?

Maybe it works on 100% english sites but on forums with any kind of foreign or special characters, this product will cause massive issues.

Call it what you want.

This has been around for at least 12 years, if not longer.
(in Fact longer as it was originally written by Trigunflame for 3.0)
I think if it had "massive issues" it would be known about long ago.

Just because YOU had an issue it does not mean everyone else does.

Your product doesn't escape special characters properly
any query with a special character will be interrupted at the special character location
it's very easy to miss

just because I'm the only one who reported this doesn't mean I'm the only one who had issues, it means I'm the only one who noticed the issue AND reported it

Feel free to ignore my report good Sir, I'm just warning other users.

Some thing like your problem...
My issue was when i tried to restore, all forum was scrued up. No tables, errors and so on. Maybe because i do not use english language. as you say. I informed developer too.


Any way thanks.

How do you get that to work? Where to install it? Total newb here, please advice. Thanks!

If you bothered to look, you would know this has the option of using mysqldump as well.

Are you talking about this?
Dear Mr Paul M, we just can rely on experimental products for something as important as database backup.

With all due respect for the quality products you made available for everyone free of charge, this one particular product is a failure. It's your right to not fix it, I respect that, but please move it to the graveyard instead of risking compromising users databases.

No.

If you dont want to use it, move on.
Its not a failure nor does it compromise anything.
So far I have tolerated your silly remarks, that stops now.